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This is a religious as well as a philosophical question
Grimethorpe2k1 Started conversation Sep 8, 2001
Strikes me that this is a religious as well as a philosophical question - whether you're religious or not.
In the light of the depth of the question, simple answers such as 'because God created it all' seem facile and unconvincing, almost avoidances.
Grime
This is a religious as well as a philosophical question
Grimethorpe2k1 Posted Sep 9, 2001
Such answers that are propositional (ie can be expressed directly in language) (e.g. God made the world so that's why it's here) are not thought by Heidegger to be satisfactory considering the depth of the question. The answer lies beyond language.
As Wittgenstein, (1889-1951) put it in The Tractatus, such things lie beyond the limits of language, and can only be shown, not said. (Though Wittgenstein was by no means a follower of Heidegger).
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