So inasmuch as “the complete stance” addresses our actual way of being, maybe it does reflect a “return” to questions that matter, as Ancient Greek philosophy did. OTOH, afaik the understanding of the question which H developed in B&T is quite alien to Greek thinking.
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I look forward to reading about how you connect all this with object-relations theory! Phil Agre and I did a graduate seminar in that stuff with George Goethals in ~1987, and it influenced us significantly.
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Goethals was a famously inspiring teacher. I hope someday to write about the teachers that have most changed me, and he would be one. Can find almost nothing about him on the web, but there’s this from 20 years earlier:https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1964/5/20/goethals-named-a-dean-may-teach/ …
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So roughly: Western ontotheology=reifying form, Eastern ontotheology=reifying emptiness, Dzogchen=inseparability of emptiness and form. Nihilism results from fixating/denying either? (Eternalism leads to nihilism?)
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Metaphysics is a death wish some would say.
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