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(Part 2/2) Thinkery Comic mini-series CONCLUSION: I CREATE My OWN THINKERY COMIC!

Previously, Beyond the Facts: The DOET Series of Posts What is Philosophy? A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids (2/2) What is Reading?  A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids (Conclusion)  The Comics Posts: Thinking About Deconstruction and Postmodernism Thinkery Comics 1: Anaximander Thinkery Comics 2: Nietzsche Thinkery Comics … (Part 2/2) Thinkery Comic mini-series CONCLUSION: I CREATE My OWN THINKERY COMIC!

Thinkery Comic mini-series CONCLUSION: CREATE YOUR OWN THINKERY COMIC

Previous Comics Posts in This Series: Beyond the Facts: The DOET Series of Posts What is Philosophy? A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids (2/2) What is Reading?  A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids (Conclusion)  The Comics Posts: Thinking About Deconstruction and Postmodernism Thinkery Comics 1: Anaximander Thinkery … Thinkery Comic mini-series CONCLUSION: CREATE YOUR OWN THINKERY COMIC

Thinkery Comics mini-series part 4/5: Kant and Causality

BACKGROUND Heidegger notes for Kant what belongs to an object as such, that make up the determinateness of the object’s objectivity:  These “Synthetic judgments a priori” are transcendental time-determinations.  To illustrate this, let us take the first group of dynamic-ontological principles, those which state a priori [something] about the existence of nature. Kant calls these … Thinkery Comics mini-series part 4/5: Kant and Causality

Thinkery Comics 3: Plato

Heidegger points out that since Plato, anything that ‘is’ can be differentiated into two realms, the aistheton and the noeton, that which is apprehended by the senses and that which can be apprehended by nous, the mind’s eye. The noeton is that which truly is because it is not subject to the changeability of the … Thinkery Comics 3: Plato

Thinkery Comics 2: Nietzsche

Background: “The solitary speaks.”One receives as a reward for much ennui , ill-humour and boredom, such as a solitude without friends, books, duties or passions must entail, one harvests those quarters of an hour of the deepest immersion in oneself and nature. He who completely entrenches himself against boredom also entrenches himself against himself: he … Thinkery Comics 2: Nietzsche

Thinkery Comics 1: Anaximander

Background: Heidegger translates Anaximander’s “dike” as jointure and “adikia” as out of joint. Something is wrong with beings, they are either subtly or conspicuously out of joint. But then, something splendid happens like falling in love or landing that dream job, and temporarily there is jointure, everything falls into place. In the language of Robet … Thinkery Comics 1: Anaximander

(Conclusion)  The Comics Posts: Thinking About Deconstruction and Postmodernism

Previously: Beyond the Facts: The DOET Series of Posts What is Philosophy? A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids (2/2) What is Reading?  A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids Now, The Conclusion Postmodernism and Deconstruction is often seen as “anything goes” interpretation.  Let us question that. One way … (Conclusion)  The Comics Posts: Thinking About Deconstruction and Postmodernism

(2/2) What is Reading?  A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids

Reading is like putting together a jigsaw puzzle without seeing the picture on the front of the puzzle box. Understanding what you’ve read is like looking at and studying a hidden gestalt image over and over until you finally see the hidden picture, and then can’t unsee the hidden picture. Our analogies capture the cognitive … (2/2) What is Reading?  A Joint Post on Secular Frontier and Secular Web Kids

Beyond the Facts: The DOET Series of Posts

The Posts: Blog Series Commenting on Chapter 1 of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” Chapter 2 of 4 Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” Chapter 3 of 4 Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” Chapter 4 of 4 (Concluding This Mini-Series of Posts) The Death of … Beyond the Facts: The DOET Series of Posts