It’s an unfortunate ingredient of dasein that some people should leave that to other people, less likely to become so confused and confounded by the effort.
No matter how many times you try to explain the TV to your dog, you are likely to get the same response.
Of course the problem with this observation, James, is that you are never really willing to bring your own assessment out into the world that we live in.
How specifically am I confused about dasein? And how have those who are more proficient in capturing it technically/philosophically been able to encompass it more fully?
How do you encompass it in your own TOE: RM/AO.
And how is all of this relatated to your understanding of the Real God — as this pertains to human interactions that come into conflict over particular moral and political values.
After all, I am the first to admit that dasein as I have come to understand it “here and now” is largely an “intellectual contraption” that I have come to believe “in my head”. All I can do then is to try to demonstrate its relevance by situating it “out in the world” in an actual existential trajectory like this:
1] I was raised in the belly of the working class beast. My family/community were very conservative. Abortion was a sin.
2] I was drafted into the Army and while on my “tour of duty” in Vietnam I happened upon politically radical folks who reconfigured my thinking about abortion. And God and lots of other things.
3] after I left the Army, I enrolled in college and became further involved in left wing politics. It was all the rage back then. I became a feminist. I married a feminist. I wholeheartedly embraced a woman’s right to choose.
4] then came the calamity with Mary and John. I loved them both but their engagement was foundering on the rocks that was Mary’s choice to abort their unborn baby.
5] back and forth we all went. I supported Mary but I could understand the points that John was making. I could understand the arguments being made on both sides. John was right from his side and Mary was right from hers.
6] I read William Barrett’s Irrational Man and came upon his conjectures regarding “rival goods”.
7] Then, over time, I abandoned an objectivist frame of mind that revolved around Marxism/feminism. Instead, I became more and more embedded in existentialism. And then as more years passed I became an advocate for moral nihilism.
Now, you and the other objectivists here will either go there or you won’t.
So, what are you going to do, James? Are you going to pursue this with me here; or, perhaps, on a new thread? Or, as has been your wont of late, are you just “popping into” a thread that I participate in, making a “retort” and then just moving on to something else?