John MacDonald


(2) Blogging Through Prof Martin Heidegger’s Interpretations of Greek Philosophy

This volume comprises a lecture course given by Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in 1932.  It’s topic is the beginning of Western philosophy and deals with Being and beings.  What is Being?  The quote from Plato’s Sophist that appears at the beginning of Heidegger’s “Being and Time” is: “For you have evidently long (2) Blogging Through Prof Martin Heidegger’s Interpretations of Greek Philosophy

New E-Project: Blogging Through Prof Martin Heidegger’s Interpretations of Greek Philosophy

“Aristotle, Plato’s disciple, relates at one place (Nicomachean Ethics, Z 7, 1141b 77ff ) the basic conception determining the Greek view on the essence of the thinker: ‘It is said they (the thinkers) indeed know things that are excessive, and thus astounding, and thereby difficult, and hence in general ‘demonic (daimonia)’ but also useless, for New E-Project: Blogging Through Prof Martin Heidegger’s Interpretations of Greek Philosophy

“The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus (2024)” Anthology by James Crossley (Editor), Chris Keith (Editor) – FINAL Updated Blogging Index

This is my new updated blogging index for this fine book. In 2011, Jesus Mythicism, the idea that Jesus never existed, was at peak popularity on the internet with sites like Neil Godfrey’s Vridar and Project Reason’s forum, and I was searching for scholarship engaging with Christ Myth theorist Earl Doherty, and I found Prof “The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus (2024)” Anthology by James Crossley (Editor), Chris Keith (Editor) – FINAL Updated Blogging Index

The Late Date of the Gospels

Price notes that the Gospel of Mark was probably written in Rome.  It contains Latinisms like “centurion” even though it was written in Greek.  It makes sense that it was the venerated gospel of Rome, since it is 90 percent preserved in Matthew and 60 percent preserved in Luke, so if it was not venerated The Late Date of the Gospels

The Death of Jesus: Eyes Opened Beyond Substitutionary Atonement

The notion of one’s eyes being opened in the bible is an important theme, meaning transformation. Adam and Eve’s eyes are opened to their nakedness, as Paul/Saul’s were opened to the wrongness of persecuting the early church. We see something similar with the transformation of the soldiers at the cross in the synoptics, which seems The Death of Jesus: Eyes Opened Beyond Substitutionary Atonement