Fourth Sunday after Epiphany

‘[I]f there exists an end in the realm of action which we desire for its own sake, an end which determines all our other desires; if, in other words, we do not make all our choices for the sake of something else – for in this way the process will go on infinitely so that [...]

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Twenty-first Sunday after Pentecost

‘…[I]f a man were always anxious that he himself, above all things, should act justly, temperately, or in accordance with any other of the excellences… no one will call such a man a lover of self or blame him. But such a man would seem more than the other a lover of self; at all [...]

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Westphal on Heidegger: How Not to Speak About God

Merold Westphal, writing  in the first chapter of his Transcendence and Self-Transcendence on the same topic I posted on here - but oh, so much better.  He argues that, in Heidegger’s critique, both premodernity and modernity share a common technological character, finding diverse ways of accomplishing the same goal: to put the world, including God or whatever [...]

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Heidegger on Descartes’ use of ‘God’ as equipment

”By substance we can understand nothing else than an entity which is in such a way that it needs no other entity in order to be.”  So Descartes, quoted by Heidegger in his critique (Being and Time 125).  Heidegger continues, ‘That whose Being is such that it has no need at all for any other [...]

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