Referring to Martin Heidegger’s thought, this paper argues that identity should be understood not as self-preservation or formal self-coincidence (A = A), but as a dynamic process constituted through becoming, transition, wandering, and distress. Rather than confining identity to Heidegger’s later conceptual-historical discussions, the paper reconstructs it through an experiential structure...
This intercultural study attempts to find a bridge between Heidegger's criticism of metaphysics as Ontotheology, his search for overcoming it in his later thinking about the hiddenness of Being itself, and Ibn 'Arabi's mystical doctrine of unity of Being-which is likewise characterized as the absolute hiddenness-through a return to their common ground in Platonic negative theology.Heidegger's...
Colin McGinn has argued that consciousness is a nonspatial phenomenon. McGinn's arguments for the nonspatiality of consciousness are presented and then criticized. It is concluded that consciousness may be as spatial as electric charge and different kinds of abilities.
n what follows, I shall address the question concerning the ultimate premise of the Transcendental Analytic in Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. I believe the candidates can be reduced to two dominant but opposing principles, one grounded in immanent time-consciousness and the other in the unity of consciousness. In pursuing this goal, I intend to view consciousness through Leibnizian lenses by...