Tuesday, August 26, 2025
summer 2025
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“On ’the essence of beyng’“ is in dialogue with Heidegger expressing his sense of “beyng.” That also provides a short sense of Heidegger’s practicality of interest in being with other persons through emancipatory teaching.
August 21 | “Richard Capobianco’s mystical Heidegger” is a close reading of his essay. Capobianco’s exemplary engagement with Heidegger as mystical is invalid, but critical reading of his essay by very close-to-text appreciation might be useful for others, especially for philosophy of education. My reading may seem tedious at times, but RC's own essay is available by link (and PDF download) at the top of my discussion, for following along .
August 4 | “A note on thinking” appreciates Heidegger’s analysis of existence as prescient philosophy of action.
August 2 | “Let’s clear thinking” is another side trek into others’ mistaken senses of Heidegger, today about mistaking his concern for effective teaching
as being about himself; and about one influential scholar’s avoidance of Heidegger’s orientation toward real persons whom he is teaching.
Philosophy values de-congestion of thinking which may importantly (for a life) clear paths toward new insights.
July 27 | Complementing my playful inner worldliness of last week, “uncon-
cealment...mysteries of being” offers a sense of engaged being in the real world, echoing Heidegger’s in-the-world-being, which is no mere state of mind, rather one’s fidelity to there being care for there being practical need.
July 24 | “Gardening moments” is—to put it lightly—a preface to technicalities of leading life in true wilderness. “Personity” is my first sprout (but my intent to post short topics for later expansion might as well be new blog posts).
June 27 | Today’s reverie, ”traces of another singularity,” begins by linking
to a posting several days ago on journaling (June 21), leading into a page on
the flow of days (June 22), then to being in Time practically, yet expansively.
It begins an upcoming series of discussions which will incorporate aspects
of earlier pages (2024, winter of 2025), but is independent of them: past as prelude.
June 20 | I’m easily distracted from my path (building after the blueprint, protocols) by appeals of newly anticipated prospects for conceptual cohering.
A radiant horizon isn’t good for staying in one locale, you know—though
I’ve lived in Berkeley over 45 years.
Getting sidetracked by fascinations may not be optimal for reaching a given goal, but the eventual reach may be better for it.
