... the object ofthe desire ofthe Other, as well as the quest for the credible word of love that would quiet the jouissance ofthe Other, con-stitute the pathos of this subjective structure. The ... repair the inadequacy ofthe father—a role the pervertmay feel privileged to play. Also, for the hysteric, the insufficiency of the signifier ofthe Father’s desire for the mother means that the ... to the abuse ofthe Other.This exposure to being used as the object ofthe Other, we learn, results from a failure ofthe paternalfunction to establish the law ofthe signifier, the law of universal...
... opti-mism either, of course; for the darkening ofthe world, the fl ight ofthe gods, the destruction ofthe earth, the reduc-tion of human beings into a mass, the hatred and mistrust of everything ... body.”7 While acknowledging the merits of these criticisms, the goal of this book is to address the question of why Heidegger may have bypassed an analysis ofthe body in the fi rst place and where ... “radical” beginning is the manner of being ofthe res cogitans, more precisely, the meaning of being ofthe “sum.” (BT, 46)Heidegger attempts to retrieve the forgotten question of being by investigating...
... on the results of demonstrations can be found in a number of places. See forexample the Abstract ofthe Treatise, 650, The beginning of Section IV ofthe Enquiry, the end of Section IV ofthe ... beyond) the concept ofthe subject.Whether or not the concept ofthe predicate is rightly applied to the concept of the subject cannot be determined by simply examining the content of either or ... that restrict the use ofthe analogies to experience, but it alsoreveals the source ofthe second relation. For the use ofthe schema in the analogies allows the three relations of items in sensible...
... that ofthe soul, of the world, or of God, the actual gathering ofthe manifold falls short of the unity ofthe idea. Only in relation to this result does inversioncome into view and open the ... openness.8 THE GATHERING OF REASON It is, then, a matter of reflecting the Kantian problem of reasonback into the original issue of ó␥o as gathering, of uncovering thosetraces ofthe original ... possibility that the giving may proceed from the side ofthe subject or from the side ofthe object. In the first case the subject would give itself the object; in the other case the object wouldgive...
... The Power of Names 17priority between the activity of naming and that of being that help set up the S.E. 1 disanalogy. The limited number of names reflects the linguistic priority of their ... interpreters by the fourth century that the citation ofthe openingwords was sufficient to communicate the entire problem.30 Chapter 1 The Power of NamesOne ofthe primary sources of sophistical ... day, as the questioner and the answerer. The questioner was the person attempting to refute the answerer.11 Contents xiList of Abbreviations The following are used to refer to the works of Aristotle:Cael....
... The experience of “Otherness” has pervaded the Self, which thereby becomes aware ofthe original unity of the Self and the Other, a unity which could be conceived 32 | The End of Comparative ... erent from the Other. The Auseinandersetzung is an encounter ofthe Self and the Other, and we must learn to let go ofthe assertively polemic connotations which often accompany the word “confrontation,” ... denominator. The same, by contrast, is the belonging together of what diff ers, through a gathering by way ofthe diff erence. We can only say the same” if we think diff erence.48 Heidegger and the Other...
... sense, then, they begin the war; they take the first step, and they are the source of all the motionwhich is the war. But in another sense, they take direction from their en-emies, and their ... merelyundergoes the action ofthe other, the agent; it is the patient, that whichsuffers or undergoes the activity ofthe agent. The matter does not impose the form of a chalice onto itself. The matter ... forms of tech-nology, two theories ofthe essence of beings in general, namely, ancienttechnology and modern technology. The history of these theories, the gradual supplanting ofthe first by the...
... itself (e.g., the number 7, the concept of motherhood, or specifically of one’s mother) and the stateof having the content, possessing the idea; for example, between the idea of mother and a fantasy ... hypothesis, Freud took the psychoanalyticstudy of neurosis out ofthe world of science into the world ofthe humanities,because a meaning is not the product of causes but the creation of a ... me the observer. This is the meaning to the observer. In the one, the content is determined in terms ofthe subject’s psychiccontext, and in the other in terms ofthe psychic context of the...
... Brother” instead ofthe other wayaround, unleashing “a virus of freedom for which there is no antidote”that will be “spread by electronic networks to the four corners of the earth.”67 The ... understanding of whether the militarystrength of other states constitutes a threat.22Better information aboutother states’ intentions and preferences would allow decision makers tonot always assume the ... transparency affects the lives of citizens around the globe. It affects the fundamental security of societies by influencing the likelihood of war and peace and influences the success of cooperativeefforts...
... need to account for the origin of their own process of thinking—leads them to be acutely aware ofthe use and abuse of rhetoric in philosophy.Moreover, their recognition ofthe historical and ... Kant, there were further developments of Rousseauian themes. Fichte’s explicit consideration ofthe problem of the origin of language finds its source in Rousseau’s Discourse on the Origin of Inequality. ... within thestate both the sover-eign whom Hegel eventually leaves blithely dotting the “i’s” ofstate policyand the rabble and women who are excluded from state education. The fur-ther problem...
... Augustus.” On the reverse side ofthe coin wasan image ofthe emperor’s mother seated on the divine throne. The emperor was thus celebrated as the head ofthe pagan religion and as the divine son of divine ... from the medieval to the modern. Amongthem are the rise ofthe cities that eroded the feudal order and the concur-rent rise of national monarchies; the expansion of trade; the dissemination of ... could be described in the language of mathematics. As he put it, the Book of Nature was writtenin the language of mathematics, not in the language of theology. Thus, the mathematical laws operative...
... from the divine, the law valid onearth from that ofthe nether world, the conscious from the unconscious, me-diation from immediacy—and equally returns whence it came. The power of the nether ... from the lair of the unknown and assimilated into the experience ofthe devout subject.“About the final ground of God one cannot be certain.” And: The finalground of God is Uncertainty.” In the ... for the universal. (PS Đ 450) The family is the locus of identification and the determinant stimulus for the in-ternalization of value the Ideal. As a result, it becomes the matrix affecting the 4...
... as the decay ofthe indi-vidual—its “passing away” as the transition of history into nature. The suffer-ing ofthe individual gives the lie to the teleology ofthe self-realizing absolute. THE ... retrace the steps ofthe extinguishing of contextual meaningthat makes the object accessible in the terms of static classification. Hence the sedimented history in the object is the history of what ... self-con-sciousness. The essential feature ofthe form of composition in question isspiritual experience. The point is to use the power ofthe subject to exca-vate the hidden dependence ofthe concept...
... fundamentally, the natural and the social sciences bothinvolve proposing hypotheses and testing them against empirical evidence— the bolder the hypotheses, the better .The most daring of such hypotheses, ... a conspiracy theory of society—forinstance, they hold that the impoverishment ofthe working class is the 14 KARL POPPER AND THE SOCIAL SCIENCES despite the logical invalidity of induction, ... analysis. In the wake of the publication came a 1998 double-volume issue of Philosophy ofthe SocialSciences, the flagship journal ofthe field, devoted to situational analysis. Anumber of books...
... that record the many different epithets ofthe god.For example:. . . the creator ofthe universe, the sustainer ofthe universe, the eternalpuru˚a, the stable one, the presiding deity of Dharma ... itis the last prayer ofthe dying and the hope ofthe living. It is the eternalmelody of Tibet, which the faithful hears in the murmuring of brooks,in the thundering of waterfalls and in the ... renders the term vy£ha as the “magnificent display” ofthe wondrousqualities ofthe land of Sukhåvatƒ.6 This meaning might easily be attached to the use ofthe term in the titles of other Mahåyåna...