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A MAJOR, THOUGH DIFFICULT, PHILOSOPHER NEGLECTED!,
By Gary Moore (Midland, Texas United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Suarez: Between Scholasticism and Modernity (Marquette Studies in Philosophy) (Paperback)
The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Revised Edition (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) by Martin Heidegger, pages 40-59-------------- The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude by Martin Heidegger, pages 58, 79ff, 84, 88ff, 94ff, 119, 124, 148, 231 ------------------------------------ The Early Heidegger & Medieval Philosophy: Phenomenology for the Godforsaken by S. J. McGrath, pages 212-213 ----------------------------- Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition by Umberto Eco, chapter one, On being --------------------------------- Borges: Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge Luis Borges --------------------------------------------------------- A History of Philosophy, Volume 3: Ockham to Suarez by Frederick Copleston, S. J. pages 173-228 ---------------------------------- Collected Fictionsby Jorge Luis Borges, esp. 87, "Plotinus, too, in the ENNEADS [V, 8, 4], remarks upon a paradisal extention of the principle of identity: 'Everything in the intelligible heavens is everywhere. Anything is all things. The sun is all stars, and each star is all stars and the sun.'", from The Approach to Al-Mu'tasim ------------------------ This is an absolutely wonderful book on a truly undeservedly neglected philosopher that, through Martin Heidegger, has had a major, but wholly unknown, influence on the course of twentieth century philosophy! It attacks fundamental but obscure and extremely difficult problems of logic and metaphysics head on with a style and verve and even sense of humor I have rarely seen outside Plato and Nietzsche, though if you are not expecting it, it is easy to miss. So look for it! The exquisiteness of its reasoning is a labyrinth. But that is because Pereira and Suárez and Heidegger have discovered what is perfectly obvious to everyone but no one wants to admit - reality IS a labyrinth. That is, one knows from direct experience immediately two fundamental truths: there is experience connected with pain and pleasure, and that the special way human beings deal with motivationally divided experience is through words, language, that is multi-form, multi-leveled, perspectivist therefore relative but ambiguously still from just one fixed point of view, even more ambiguous because it is always a process of, one, showing openly the part of one's intent one wants to show to `others' and, two, hiding that which one does not want `others' to know and, three, hiding from one's `self' things - like what I am talking about here precisely - that one refuses to know explicitly, and then have to deal with - or - much worse! - to realize it cannot be `dealt with' at all! Reality is what it is and is not morally obligated on anyone's part, including God's, to be understandable, to be easy to comprehend or be able to `deal' with, to understand why everything is the way it is, or even why you are the way you are. If you objectively study your own language usage in its specific times, places, and the particular people you are with, you will also objectively discover you are several very different people at different times and places and in different social groups. And if your `self' is literally a maze of mirrors that is very difficult to get an objective perspective on, then how about the whole of being? [from Merriam-Webster: Miasma! noun, plural miasmas, or miasmata, miasms: Etymology: New Latin miasma, from Greek, defilement; akin to Greek miainein to defile, 1 : a vaporous exhalation (as of a marshy region or of putrescent matter) formerly believed to contain a substance causing disease (as malaria) *the miasmas of Matto Grosso-- Jean Stafford* 2 : a pervasive influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt *abandoned its task in a miasma of words-- J.K.Galbraith* *from its pages flow that same miasma of dread suspense, that same air of dissolution, decay, and death-- Margaret B. Hexter*] One should think of Umberto Eco and Jorge Luis Borges, two other major but highly neglected philosophers of the maze and miasma, when one thinks of Francisco Suárez or, for that matter, José Pereira, a maze of mirrors and haunted house all on his own!
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