To close, let’s think one more time of the right-angle triangle “as” it appears to (i) A mentally challenged person who does not encounter triangles as a distinct class of shapes, vs (ii) A child just learning her shapes, vs (iii) A teenager in geometry class learning the Pythagorean theorem, vs (iv) A geometry professor … (Afterword) What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought?

That our thinking proceeds from obscure to clear would be evidence for God for Leibniz, that beings are progressively more rational as our growing reason allows us to encounter them ever more clearly. We have hit on one of the most elegant, underlying moves in Leibniz’s entire metaphysics. For him, the very fact that our … (Conclusion) What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought?

What does Leibniz say about the mind of God? In the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, the mind of God is the ultimate, necessary repository of all possibilities, mathematical structures, and eternal truths. Leibniz views God not merely as a creator who acts by whim, but as the supreme, infinite intelligence whose intellect operates with … (2/2) What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought?

What does Kant say about the infinite mind and how is it different from the finite mind? Kant contrasts the finite (human) mind with an infinite (divine or “original”) mind primarily in terms of the nature of their cognitive faculties—especially intuition and understanding—in the Critique of Pure Reason and related works such as the Critique … What is the Difference between God (Infinite Mind) and Person (Finite Mind) in German Philosophical Thought?

Blog Posts in this series: (Part 1) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 2) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 3) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 4) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 5) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 6) Blogging Through Martin … Blog Series Commenting on Chapter 1 of Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

Blog Posts in this series: (Part 1) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 2) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 3) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 4) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 5) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics” (Part 6) Blogging Through Martin … (CONCLUSION) Blogging though chapter 1 of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics

When asking after beings, the “why” question is of an entirely different kind from the “what” and “how” questions. A table may be “for eating on” and “brown” and “hard” in terms of what it is, and “badly positioned” in the middle of the gym floor during a basketball game in terms of “how” it … (Part 8) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

Heidegger comments Roughly speaking, philosophy always aims at the first and last grounds of beings, and it does so in such a way that human beings themselves, with respect to their way of Being, are emphatically interpreted and given an aim (Heidegger, IM, 11) What is, as such and as a whole, the Greeks called … (Part 7) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

Academic disciplines do not exist in a vacuum; they are structured frameworks designed to answer fundamental inquiries about such things as our universe, past, and minds. An object of inquiry is any phenomenon, entity, or concept designated as the subject of systematic investigation, characterized by its finitude, intelligibility, and capacity to generate testable or interpretable … (Part 6) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”

We’ve been looking at the basic question of metaphysics, “Why are there beings at all rather than nothing,” and have found some interesting points.  The question suggests beings have a “why,” and we seem to know what and how beings are and what and how we mean “Nothing” – as the question isn’t incoherent to … (Part 5) Blogging Through Martin Heidegger’s “Introduction to Metaphysics”