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| | Metacrock's Blog: Ground of Being |
 | | We have already seen earlier that the Ground of Being (God) must be separate from the finite realm (which is a mixture of being and non-being) and that God cannot be a being. | | | The great theologians of the Greek Orthodox chruch also said that God was on the order of being itself, and that stands as the basis of all Western thinking about God in the Jeudeo-Christian tradition. | | | I say that God is 'necessary being' not "a necessary being," not because I forgot the "a" but because God is not "a being." He is above the level of any particular being that participates in being, but exists on the level of the Being, the thing itself, apart from any particular beings. |
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http://metacrock.blogspot.com/2005/08/ground-of-being.html
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| | SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Is God composed of essence and existence? |
| | Therefore it follows that God is being in general which can be predicated of everything. | | | Thirdly, because, just as that which has fire, but is not itself fire, is on fire by participation; so that which has existence but is not existence, is a being by participation. | | | Therefore, since in God there is no potentiality, as shown above (1), it follows that in Him essence does not differ from existence. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/summa/100304.htm
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| | ‘The being by which Nothingness arrives in the world is a being such that in its Being, the nothingness of its Being is in question. | | | The Being by which Nothingness comes to the world must be its own Nothingness’ (p. | | | (‘That which affects itself with bad faith must be conscious (of) its bad faith since the being of consciousness if consciousness of being’ (p. |
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http://www-unix.oit.umass.edu/~brandt/sartre_3.doc
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| | Jean-Paul Sartre Being and Nothingness |
| | But this flight establishes in contingency exactly what is fled: the for-itself which ahs been fled is left at its place (Sartre, 1956: 149). | | | Nihilation also means, I can play at being what I am not, and being who I am; a sort of methodology of investigation of the self. | | | Can I be joyful without Harley> I am the being David, along with the being Dave which I am denying in acts of nihilation. |
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http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/teaching/503/sartre_links.htm
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| | Existence and Being by Martin Heidegger (1949) |
| | Because metaphysics represents beings as beings, it is, two-in-one, the truth of beings in their universality and in the highest being. | | | Rather it is due to the manner in which beings as beings have from the very beginning disconcealed themselves. | | | For what the title "fundamental ontology" suggests is, of course, that the attempt to recall the truth of Being-and not, like all ontology, the truth of beings-is itself (seeing that it is called "fundamental ontology") still a kind of ontology. |
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/heidegg2.htm
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| | The Book Reader Home Page |
| | Being-for-itself may be defined as the realm of human consciousness, the realm of subjectivity and choice, and the realm of freedom within alternatives. | | | In the realm of Being-for-itself, bad faith is always a possibility, Sartre describes a waiter in a cafeteria to illustrate this point: By his overly precise and meticulous actions, the waiter seems robotlike; those who watch him realize that he is "playing at being" a waiter. | | | Sartre maintains that pure Being, when considered as a whole, always lies outside the realm of human perceptibility. |
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http://www.geocities.com/paul_rim/being.htm
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| | Science of Logic - Being |
| | This yields the decried unity of the finite and the infinite — the unity which is itself the infinite which embraces both itself and finitude — and is therefore the infinite in a different sense from that in which the finite is regarded as separated and set apart from the infinite. | | | As this negation of the finite the in-itself is determinate and thus, as negation of the negation, is affirmative within itself. | | | The finite reappears in the infinite itself as its other, because it is only in its connection with its other, the finite, that the infinite is. The progress to infinity is, consequently, only the perpetual repetition of one and the same content, one and the same tedious alternation of this finite and infinite. |
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http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/hl/hl136.htm
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| | Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind |
| | These two moments of the truth of enlightenment may be followed by a third moment of truth, which reveals that insight transcends itself as particular or finite, and that the facts of sensory experience can be related positively to the Absolute, attaining unity with its ultimate reality. | | | The transcendence of this otherness is the attainment of a unified knowledge of substance as spirit, which is the completion of the Phenomenology of Mind. | | | Hegel maintains that knowledge is not separated from, or external to, absolute reality, but that knowledge is itself reality, and that reality is mental and spiritual. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/md2/timewarp/hegel.html
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| | Philosophy 335: Being and Time |
| | And this in turn means that Dasein understands itself in its being in some way and with dome explicitness. | | | "wir sind es sogar je selbst": we are it immediately it itself. | | | NB: "this manner of access and interpretation should show the being [das Seiende] as it is initially and for the most part--in its average everydayness. |
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http://sweb.uky.edu/~rsand1/phi335/bt.html
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| | Being and Nothingness |
| | For ontologically there is no big difference between "the being of 'being cowardly'", "which I am in the mode of not being what I am" and "the 'non-being' of not-being-courageous which I wish to hide from myself". | | | Man refutes the principle of identity by existing as "consciousness of being", that is to say by surpassing every second what he is including his temporary moments of candor and admissions of bad faith. | | | It manifests itself as sincerety which is regarded as a kind of human ideal. |
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http://www.uri.edu/personal/szunjic/philos/being.htm
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| | Being - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Being with a capital 'B', on the other hand, is often used in philosophy to refer to divine Being, God, or ultimate reality. | | | To Aristotle, only spirits and God are independent of matter, and thus these entities are purely "substance" or "being." This is the origin of the phrase "One in substance with the Father" or modernly "One in being with the Father" in the Catholic Nicene Creed. | | | Eckhart Tolle in his best-selling book, The Power of Now, uses the word "Being" as a substitute and more accurate word for "God". |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being
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| | Tillich Journal Article |
| | As part of being, non-being is eternally present and cannot be dispelled. | | | Therefore, instead of saying God is first of all being-itself, it is possible to say that he is the power of being in everything. | | | He not only maintains the reality of essences as "powers of being" [21], but, beyond them, the reality of an ontological ground for the existence of beings and for the transitoriness and passing-awayness of beings. |
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http://faculty.winthrop.edu/craigheadh/articles/TillichJournalArticle.html
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| | SUMMA THEOLOGICA: Do creatures need to be kept in existence by God? |
| | That which is included in the nature of a thing is necessarily in that thing, and its contrary cannot be in it; thus a multiple of two must necessarily be even, and cannot possibly be an odd number. | | | But some creatures are subsistent forms, as we have said of the angels (50, 2,5): and thus to be is in them of themselves. | | | In this manner all creatures need to be preserved by God. |
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http://www.newadvent.org/summa/110401.htm
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| | Selections from Heidegger, Being and Time. |
| | It itself is not; the others have taken its being away from it. | | | It itself, in its everyday kind of being, is what initially misses itself and covers itself over. | | | This constancy pertains not to the enduring objective presence of something, but to the kind of being of Dasein as being-with. |
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http://faculty.uwb.edu/cbehler/teaching/selHeid.html
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| | Being in itself - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | One of the problems of human existence for Sartre is the desire to attain being-in-itself, which he describes as the desire to be God - this is a longing for full control over one's destiny and for absolute identity, only attainable by achieving full control over the destiny of all existence. | | | The argument for this claim draws heavily on Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit. | | | In Sartrean existentialism, being-in-itself is also contrasted with the being of persons, which he describes as a combination of, or vascillation or tension between, being-for-itself and being-for-others. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Being_in_itself
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| | phalLogocentrism |
| | It is to be contrasted with the being, or existence, of people. | | | human beings are free to do as they choose. | | | One path to bad faith is to view all of one's existence as disclosed through others. |
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http://dks.thing.net/phalLogocentrism.html
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| | 20th WCP: Sartre and the Rationalization of Human Sexuality |
| | The origin of the gods can be credited to bad faith. | | | Sartre broaches a view of human physical existence that has important implications for sexuality, but unfortunately this is never pursued and ends in abstractions. | | | "Bad faith" is an act on the part of consciousness in misleading itself about its relationships. |
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http://www.bu.edu/wcp/Papers/Cont/ContAlex.htm
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| | Sartre Online - The Ultimate Sartrean Resource: Great Division of Being |
| | Being-in-itself (l'en-soi) refers to the totally unrelated, uncharacterized being found in the transphenomenal realm. | | | Without this relation to the in-itself, there can be no for-itself. | | | It is the being of man, one who defines his own essence and gives meaning to his own existence through the choices he makes. |
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http://www.geocities.com/sartresite/sartre_theses2.html
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| | The Future is revealed to the For-itself as that which the For-itself is not yet. | | | Being-for-itself brings Nothingness into the world, because Being-for-itself judges other beings by seeing what it is not. | | | Through bad faith, we may seek to deny the responsible freedom of Being-for-itself. |
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http://www.angelfire.com/md2/timewarp/sartre.html
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| | Simone de Beauvoir |
| | Women are “the second sex” because men throughout human history have presumed the power to shape and define the world, objectifying women as beings Other than the male “norm: -- as passive vs. active, matter vs. form, evil vs. good, especially as subservient to men. | | | When we pretend to have a determinate nature and/or stable meanings and values, we are guilty of bad faith, deceiving ourselves. | | | The world does not interpret itself; meanings are not determinately given, not ready-made. |
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http://www.wou.edu/las/humanities/cannon/beauvoir.htm
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| | Jean-Paul Sartre |
| | Not surprisingly (given his constant political activities) he found it in revolutionary engagement. | | | "The Self and the Other in Roeg's Eureka and Sartre's Being and Nothingness" by Cynthia Baron | | | Central to the argument of Being and Nothingness and Sartre's insistence on the primacy of human freedom is his insistence that consciousness cannot be understood in causal terms. |
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http://www.mythosandlogos.com/Sartre.html
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| | GWFHegel.Org - Hegel's Science of Philosophy - The Role of the "We" in Hegel's Phenomenology |
| | What the "We" refers to here is that in facing itself, self-consciousness is a "We" in the sense that as confonting itself, self-consciousness is two, once as subject and once as object, or apparently as two "I's." At the same time they are identical, since both are one and the same self-consciousness. | | | The content, however, of what presents itself to us [observing consciousness] does exist for it [natural consciousness]; we comprehend [what is] only the formal aspect of that content [for natural consciousness], or its pure origination. | | | A comparison of the Concept-of-the-object and the object-in-itself, however, seems to require a standpoint that is both above and inclusive of these two, i.e. |
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http://www.gwfhegel.org/we.html
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| | PROPOSITIONS-ON-BEING-2 |
| | Without the AS, no difference between one occasion of the manifestation of Being and another is determinable. | | | Where appearance appears, Being is. But not as the individual thing that appearance asserts. | | | Insofar as a being coincides with its predicates, it is not its being that is in question, but its relation to the sentient others for whom the assertion of those predicates seems true. |
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http://www.stationhill.org/artists/CS/parmenides-project/beprop2.htm
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| | The Conversation Webcast, Suzanne Taylor |
| | We are open to being joined by people who are moved by her penetrating perception, to explore of a "way of Being" along the lines she suggests. | | | This is your part and your responsibility in the growing Unity of All Being. | | | The Human Being Society is your place to practice, to gain strength, and to learn to create Unity in your own Sphere. |
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http://www.theconversation.org/madamxshow.html
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| | SCG II, chaps. 52-53 |
| | Now that existence is the complement of the existing substance: for everything actually exists by having existence. | | | Therefore that existence which is being of itself and by itself, must be uncaused. | | | But in a created intelligent subsistent being there are two elements, the substance itself and the existence thereof which is not the same thing as the substance. |
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http://www.nd.edu/~afreddos/courses/301/scgii52-53.htm
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| | Table of contents for The opening of Hegel's science of logic |
| | From the Phenomenology to the Logic Chapter Eight Preparing to read Hegel's Logic Part Two: Text Note on the Text Chapter Nine Beginning Logic: Text With what must the Science begin? | | | Alternating determination of the finite and the infinite 2. | | | Chapter Ten Being: Text General division of being Section one: determinateness (quality) 1. |
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http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip054/2004028121.html
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| | The "Being Digital" Cyberdock |
| | Say some users of the "Being Digital" Cyberdock want to become part of the book and include their own creative ideas about how to program a knowbot or "bookbot" for the purposes of achieving one of the ends outlined in the book. | | | When browsing the "Being Digital" Cyberdock, point to a link and you'll see an indicator in the text. | | | On a CD of the book, this same "'bot" might be illustrated in a finite and contained prototype form. |
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http://archives.obs-us.com/obs/english/books/nn/bdintro.htm
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| | Balls Ate Balls' Balls - 10/26/98 |
| | As empirical proof that everything other than being over itself, is OVER, you need look no further than the hallowed American pastime, the World Series. | | | A few weeks ago, in this column, we reported that being over was apparently, itself, OVER. | | | Michael Control-Alt-Del, president of Control-Alt-Del Computers, was quick to deny any responsibility for everything being OVER except being over itself. |
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http://www.c3f.com/nty/nty1026.html
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