Sundry Musings

Heidegger's "The Nothing" and God's "I AM."

I want to understand Flannery O'Connor's sense of Heidegger's contributions and limitations.

May 28 •

Walter Emerson Adams

Good Country People

Flannery O'Connor's juxtaposition of metaphysics with Heidegger's "the Nothing."

May 22 •

Walter Emerson Adams

Why Heidegger was not an existentialist

Heidegger’s concern was the phenomenology of the world around us. Sartre’s concern was the battle for existence.

Mar 23 •

Walter Emerson Adams

Martin Heidegger's Aletheia and Simone Weil's Attention

"Essential attention"

Mar 23 •

Walter Emerson Adams

Metaphysical Truth and Aletheian Truth

The "to-be-thought" and the "thingness of things"

Feb 2 •

Walter Emerson Adams

The metaphysics of relation

Heidegger, Edith Stein, and the mystics of the Church

Jan 30 •

Walter Emerson Adams

Humility is the natural result of astonishment

Simone Weil and the phenomenon of attention

Dec 21, 2023 •

Walter Emerson Adams

Thérèse and Heidegger on the hiddenness of Being

Crowning the year and clothing the meadows

Jun 6, 2023 •

Walter Emerson Adams

What was Thérèse’s relationship to Being?

To establish the project's foundation, we will ask: 'How does Thérèse stand with Being?'

Mar 27, 2023 •

Walter Emerson Adams

St. Thérèse and Martin Heidegger

Thérèse revealed a phenomenological spirituality of mysticism that is ordinary.

Oct 25, 2022 •

Walter Emerson Adams

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