Tag: consciousness
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Why Has Being Become Manifest as a Burden? An Exploration of Anxiety in Being and Time
1. Introductions This essay explores Heidegger’s concept of anxiety in Being and Time and aims to seek clarification for its root cause while answering the question: Why has Being become manifest as a burden? (Heidegger, 1962, p. 173). Section 2 outlines the project of Being and Time, which provides the context for our exploration and…
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Exploring Bergson’s Concept of Intuition: A Phenomenological Critique
1. Introduction This essay aims to explore Bergson’s concept of intuition in Time and Free Will, and compare it with ideas in phenomenology, particularly in Husserl and Heidegger. Section 2 provides the context for our exploration by discussing Bergson’s concept of consciousness as ‘duration’ (la durée), which is grasped by intuition, and section 3 delves…
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Breath by Breath
By Dicson Candra Wijaya25 February, 2023 Being in the world, this world, is an undeniable reality for each and every one of us. For without it, I wouldn’t be writing; nor you, reading; or anybody else who potentially comes across this essay (no matter how remotely). Each of us living, having lived; breathing, having breathed.…
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Rewriting the Significance of Your Being
1. The Problem of Anxiety Red pill, blue pill? Such were the options that Neo received from Morpheus in the hugely acclaimed film The Matrix, as Neo grew bothered with the irregularities that he recently noticed in his life. Taking the blue pill is promised to instantly relieve him of all anxieties, after which he…
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Reflection on MN 9: Sammādiṭṭhisutta translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi (with Excerpts)
Last updated 18 August 2022: Made an edit on the section of the four nutriments as #3 is actually manosañcetanā instead of sankhāra. Link to Sutta: Majjhima Nikāya 9 translated by Bhikkhu Bodhi *Bolds, italics and square brackets in excerpts are my own “‘One of right view, one of right view,’ is said, friends. In…
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