(free AI image) “19 Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal, 20 but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your treasure is, … Jacques Derrida and Nietzsche in Sauf le nom (part 6): God’s Ass?

The unknown God of negative theology (not this, not that) is a singularity that overflows attempts a generalizing with an essence, overflowing opposites like thing/non thing, being/ non being – transcending all theological attributes (Derrida, Sauf le nom, 52) in the form A is B.  We assume as our a priori that we have understood … Jacques Derrida in “Sauf le nom” (part 5)

We’ve been thinking about negative theology / apophatic theology with Derrida’s Sauf le nom, the idea of characterizing the divine by negating predicates: wise without wisdom, powerful without power.  It is a kind of language/translating.  It is a being-together or gathering together of singularities (46) that is not just that of a subsuming under a … Jacques Derrida and Søren Kierkegaard in “Sauf le nom” (part 4)

Derrida’s Sauf le nom (Post-Scriptum) begins with a look at apophatic theology (negative theology) and Augustine’s Confessions.  Apophatic theology is the idea that we approach God, not through attribution (e.g., God is all-powerful), but through questioning and negation [“Meister Eckhart cites him often; he often cites the ‘without’ of Saint Augustine, that quasi-negative predication of … Jacques Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche and Søren Kierkegaard in “Sauf le nom” (part 3)

Martin Heidegger did his major study lecture course on Plato’s Sophist around the same time as Being and Time, and a major focus is Antisthenes on the question of naming. Let’s approach this obliquely with the question on the sciences. Academic fields differ in their objects of inquiry based on the nature of reality they … Jacques Derrida and Martin Heidegger in “Sauf le nom” (part 2)

Heidegger uses the term phenomenology in Hegel’s sense as “uncovering what is hidden” though always already there inconspicuously: making conspicuous. Hegel says the tearing of the sock phenomenalizes the Category of Unity, “as” a lost-Unity. Hegel, in his inaugural address, Heidelberg, 1816, says “The Being of the universe, at first hidden and concealed, has no … Derrida and Heidegger: Phenomenology vs Deconstruction “Sauf le nom (part 1)”

I’ve been thinking about Jacques Derrida and deconstruction in previous posts, so I’d like to contrast Derrida with Heidegger briefly “In order to understand, Heidegger says, one must see phenomenologically. He thus invites us to the first exercise of phenomenological “kindergarten.” To tear apart [zer-reissen] means: to tear into two parts, to separate: to make … Jacques Derrida and Passions

Heidegger talks about the passivity and receptivity of essential thinking, not something the result of your effort.  In German this is “Es Gibt,” “there is” or literally “it gives.”  For example, you might try in futility for hours to solve a problem when suddenly “it comes to you.”  Derrida’s analysis in “The Gift of Death” … Jacques Derrida and the Philosophy of Death: Conclusion of The Gift of Death chapter 3-4 with Heidegger, Derrida

One of the striking things about Paul’s letters is they sound like Papal missives or decrees. Paul was a self-made man from Tarsus and a self-proclaimed apostle. But his long and weighty letters make him sound like a Roman provincial administrator. In fact, the letters themselves depict Paul as such an administrator who makes the … End of Year Post. Announcing My Fourth and Final Essay on the Historical Paul and Prof Nina Livesey

Heidegger notes in the history of philosophy as metaphysics from Plato to Nietzsche the central “world” or context the questions are being interrogated in are that of Being, which made scientific reasoning possible. The Greek word for Being, ousia, which first became a technical term in Aristotle originally meant estate, the general sphere or network … Jacques Derrida and the Philosophy of Death: The Gift of Death chapter 2(b) with Heidegger, Derrida, and Artificial Intelligence