tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331917990627226586.post1779430336003088474..comments2023-08-29T04:35:15.852-07:00Comments on The Trent Philosophy Blog: Neal Curtis’s guest lecture on the Pen, Being and the PosthumanNeil Turnbullhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07757980706607642699noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8331917990627226586.post-43840711608454486742009-12-02T12:50:57.853-08:002009-12-02T12:50:57.853-08:00What seemed most interesting to me about the talk ...What seemed most interesting to me about the talk was not only that it showed how the basic question of philosophy, the question of being, is one that emerges out of everyday contexts, but also the fact the everyday life is haunted by the expeirence of the 'nothing'. This is why, contra Freud, everyday life is anxious life. But this experience of radical insignificance is also an experience of the possibility of freedom, because then we have ot make a decision in the face of the nothing. It is the nothing's ability to reduce that world to nothing that creates the demand that we make something of the world through our projects. The idea that the nothing is an 'active something', in this regard, is what is most metaphysically interesting in Heidegger.<br /><br />Neil TurnbullNeil Turnbullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07757980706607642699noreply@blogger.com