Mastodawn

Forgetting Dasein? No. Forgetting lunch.
My trousers are already slowly falling off from the overwhelming immersion in fundamental ontology, while the ladle spoon in the drawer is slowly becoming a misunderstood historical artifact. The pantry is no longer a place of storage, but a pure, unadulterated abyss of oblivion.
Dasein is hungry, but Zuhandenheit does not include carbs.
The trousers are only the external manifestation of ontological collapse. Everything is fine.
#philosophy #heidegger

goldenage 20h ago

In The Concept of Mind, Gilbert Ryle proposed that much of the philosophical tradition had been misled by a picture: that of the mind as an inner theater, populated by episodes—beliefs, intentions, hopes—unfolding in a private domain alongside the body. To ascribe hope is not, to report an occurrence hidden from view, but to situate a person within a field of intelligibility: to register a pattern, a readiness to act and respond across indefinitely many circumstances.
#philosophy #gilbertriley

goldenage 1d ago

A word of resilience
#language #dictionary #survival #hardship

goldenage 2d ago

Što ako medicina, u svojoj težnji za preciznošću, nesvjesno oduzima bolesniku upravo ono što mu najviše treba—mogućnost da još uvijek afirmira vlastiti život?

Ovaj tekst sugerira da bolest nije samo biološko stanje, nego i egzistencijalni izazov—i da bez te dimenzije liječenje ostaje nedovršeno.
#von Balthazar #Wojtyła #phenomenology #anthropology #theology #medicine

goldenage 2d ago

Between philosophical grammar and theological longing, this essay traces what becomes of hope when the inner theater falls silent. Two convergent thinkers on hope and living with illness. Ratzinger and Ryle at the same table.

https://thestoicanchor.substack.com/p/after-the-ghost-is-gone

#philosophy #anthropology #convergence #Ratzinger #GilbertRyle

goldenage 3d ago

PhilPeople seems to operate through a delayed dialectic of presence.

Profile without work, work without author, and finally their reconciliation.

The process is not chronological, but eventually converges.

One might call this… eventual consistency.

goldenage 3d ago

And Überlieferung and überkommene doing the work of showing that Dasein’s world is never a fresh start — it inherits a interpreted world, a world already semantically furnished by the Man, by Gerede, by tradition that arrives pre-loaded. Heidegger on inheritance and tradition.

goldenage 3d ago

The Über of Heidegger’s Being and Time

Überantwortet in §29 — where Dasein is delivered-over to its Stimmung, handed over to its own attunement before any reflective stance is possible. You can’t get behind your mood to inspect it; you’re already in it because you’ve been überantwortet to it.

goldenage 3d ago

The Wächter of the Kitchen Floor

A note on equipment, readiness-to-hand, and one very attentive Bichon Frisé

There is a concept in Heidegger's *Being and Time* called *Zuhandenheit* — readiness-to-hand. It describes the mode of being of equipment when it is functioning properly: the hammer that hammers, the knife that cuts. When things work, they recede into the background of a smoothly functioning world, transparent, simply *there*.

Prince operates in my kitchen in precisely this mode.

goldenage 3d ago

I’ve started reading Being and Time in Croatian and English simultaneously, just to check how key terms are rendered.

It’s a strange experience — the same text, but not quite the same concepts.