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Ideas for 'Being and Time', 'Briefings on Existence' and 'On Cruelty'

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1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 4. Early European Thought

23122	Montaigne was the founding father of liberalism [Montaigne, by Gopnik]
	Full Idea: The first liberal, the founding father if we have one, is the great sixteenth century French essayist Michel de Montaigne.
	From: report of Michel de Montaigne (On Cruelty [1580]) by Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities 1
	A reaction: He says this not on the basis of his politicies or achievements, but his general attitudes and values. It may be another hundred years before we can identify another obvious liberal (Locke?).

1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 5. Modern Philosophy / c. Modern philosophy mid-period

12330	In ontology, logic dominated language, until logic was mathematized [Badiou]
	Full Idea: From Aristotle to Hegel, logic was the philosophical category of ontology's dominion over language. The mathematization of logic has authorized language to become that which seizes philosophy for itself.
	From: Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998], 8)

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 8. Humour

12318	The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself [Badiou]
	Full Idea: The female body, when taken in its entirety, is the Phallus itself.
	From: Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998])
	A reaction: Too good to pass over, too crazy to file sensibly, too creepy to have been filed under humour, my candidate for the weirdest remark I have ever read in a serious philosopher, but no doubt if you read Lacan etc for long enough it looks deeply wise.

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 7. Against Metaphysics

12325	Philosophy has been relieved of physics, cosmology, politics, and now must give up ontology [Badiou]
	Full Idea: Philosophy has been released from, even relieved of, physics, cosmology, and politics, as well as many other things. It is important for it to be released from ontology per se.
	From: Alain Badiou (Briefings on Existence [1998], 3)
	A reaction: A startling proposal, for anyone who thought that ontology was First Philosophy. Badiou wants to hand ontology over to mathematicians, but I am unclear what remains for the philosophers to do.

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology

22223	Being-in-the-world is projection to possibilities, thrownness among them, and fallenness within them [Heidegger, by Caputo]
	Full Idea: Being-in-the-world is a phenomenon of 'care' with a tripartite structure: a) projection towards its possibilities, b) thrownness among those possibilities, so Dasein is not free, and c) fallenness among worldly possibilities, to neglect of its own.
	From: report of Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927]) by John D. Caputo - Heidegger p.227
	A reaction: Sounds a bit Californian to me. Just living among the world's possibilities is evidently a bad thing, because you could be concentrating on yourself and your own development instead?

22158	Pheomenology seeks things themselves, without empty theories, problems and concepts [Heidegger]
	Full Idea: 'Phenomenology' can be formulated as 'To the things themselves!' It is opposed to all free-floating constructions and accidental findings, and to conceptions which only seem to have been demonstrated. It is opposed to traditiona' pseudo-problems.
	From: Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], Intro II.07)
	A reaction: It sounds as if we are invited to look at the world the way a dog might look at it. I am not at all clear what it to be gained from this approach.