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Anonymous Mon Mar 5 07:28:46 2018 No.10797372 [Reply] [Original]

"Indeed, the question which was raised long ago, is still and always will be, and which always baffles us—What is Being?—"

Aristot. Met. 7.1028b

I ask you, /lit/. What is being?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 07:35:41 2018 No.10797384 The gerund of the verb to be Alternatively, a synonim of living thing

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 07:38:22 2018 No.10797392 I think Daddy said Jung said something about that

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 07:45:58 2018 No.10797403 Time

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 08:16:30 2018 No.10797467 >>10797392 Who's Daddy?

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 08:38:46 2018 No.10797510 It's taking part in a state of affair in the actual world.

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 08:53:27 2018 No.10797544 >>10797372 Who cares what it is? It's just a fucking word. It's not like it has any objective meaning, it's just something we use to refer to a multitude of ideas and concepts

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 08:54:03 2018 No.10797546 >>10797544 >being this ridiculous Stop

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 08:55:14 2018 No.10797550 >>10797372 the opposite of not being

>>	Anonymous Mon Mar 5 08:56:30 2018 No.10797554 Being Is.

Anonymous Mon Mar 5 08:56:52 2018 No.10797555

>>10797546
>what does this representation we've arbitrarily created of some idea or concept REALLY mean?
It means whatever the fuck you want it to mean. Philosophers and the greatest geniuses of humanity are stupid as hell sometimes, and I'm not even being ironic.

Anonymous Mon Mar 5 08:57:13 2018 No.10797558

Being qua existence-as-such is the oneness (or compound) of form / actuality and matter / potentiality.
Parmenides (who Aristotle concurred with on this point) rather cleverly captured in by stating simply "By Being, it is".
Also, I only very recently began to appreciate the difference between level of explanation and being as laid out in the Categories.

Anonymous Mon Mar 5 09:31:37 2018 No.10797672

>>10797555
Not that anon and while I agree it is just some stupid concept that can mean anything and so on... That's kind of the point, because we base our lives on it, we identify with stuff, we love stuff that are, we suffer for things that are, we see things becoming and then vanishing, we value stuff because of it. The point is not "let's decide for some dictionary definition of it", but what is this, arbitrary as it may seem at first glance, that has to do with literally everything?

If it means whatever the fuck you want it to mean, then damn, there is a lot that we have to talk about it.

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