Showing posts with label essence. Show all posts
Showing posts with label essence. Show all posts

Personification

 

Moth Mulleins
Viper's-Bugloss and Moth Mullein are two unappreciated Flowering plants. Moth Mullein is a biennial. Viper's-Bugloss is a chalk loving biennial. It's the charming bloom that needs to be seen close up that does it to the development of a postmodernist theorists. Its's the moment experience decides "F the Grand Theory this is where I want to be." Round here of course we do get the warm weather visit from the Summer Tanager, whose call, when he's unattached, is that of a pure post structuralist, clearly no fan of Immanuel Kant. But I'm still prepared to argue with some force that Blue Birds, having been sanctified and made to feel foolish by the ditsy Blue Bird Box, are much happier when they're playing chess with the Sparrows.


Heidegger and Sartre on Essence

 

Moth Mullein
Essence, for Heidegger emerged from Experience. His deliberate way of putting it was thus : "The Essence of Dasein lies in its existence." So put that in your pipe. Heidegger's book Being and Time was read by Sartre when Sartre was in prison waiting for the authorities to decide whether he was going to be a danger to France's relationship with the Third Reich and if so should he be sent to a labor camp. Inevitably the idea of being thrown into the swamp where a being over time creates its own meaning was tempting.