the question of being

THE QUESTION OF BEING

ANIL MITRA PHD, © 1999 – 2000
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THE QUESTION OF BEING

The Question

Before the question of being - “what is being, the nature and meaning of being” - [1] what is the reason for and nature of the question, and [2] what is the fundamental question for man - being or otherwise

In the question of the nature and limits to being and knowledge in relation to Being and Knowledge [i] specify the relations and results… then explain / “prove” them; [ii] also, initially, consider the necessary elements of the relations B, K, and… e.g. R, A [relationship, action]

Being as the fundamental entity

Necessary and sufficient to human existence
Universe as known by man

Ultimate being

Issues

Are things enough - science, materialism?

Mind; and the subject-object split - essential or conceptual and impressed

Related duals: present-future, percept-concept; and the extent to which these distinctions are percept and concept

Question of the nature of being - entity, what, how?

Elements of being: being, relationship, action - includes time; nature of time

The essence or quality of being human

The possibility of being: ultimate being; what is available to a human being

Being and the question of knowledge; nature of being and knowledge in light of the considerations of being. In light of knowledge being constructive, trial and correction: knowledge as adaptation includes knowledge as description as a special case; knowledge as the assertion of being as the most general meaning of knowledge. Being and knowledge, therefore, are not only theoretical affairs but real being requires commitment and living, and real knowledge is a phase of being

Being and nothing

Fundamental question or problem of metaphysics: Heidegger says it is “Why is there something?”… What does he really say? Is that the fundamental question or is it “what are the natures of Being and being; what are their relationships; are the relationships given or constructive, creative, temporal; how is the ultimate in this relationship known, lived and realized?”… What is the fundamental question?

While Heidegger would retreat from substance ontologies, is he implicitly seeking some place of repose? Is there such a place?

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