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The Long Beach Philosophy June Meeting

Jun 6
Fri 7:00 PM
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Estimated attendance:  8  people attended.
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The Long Beach Philosophy Meetup meets once a month to discuss topics in philosophy. Generally, the focus will be Western philosophy, but all points of view are welcome.

Feel free to initiate a topic with the group by e-mail or show up at the meeting with a topic in mind. When possible, we will select topics for discussion at the preceding meeting. The suggestion of short reading available on the Internet is encouraged for all topics.

For our ninth meeting, we will transition from I Am A Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter, which was a lively and probing discussion of Hofstadter's book and the nature of the self, to Martin Heidegger's discussion of metaphysics (i.e., nothinginess) (to be presented by Chris) juxtaposing it with Schopenhauer's discussion of emptiness (to be presented by Andrew).

The meeting will begin at 7:00 p.m. The first twenty minutes or so will be devoted to introductions and settling in. Meetings will end when they are over. Don't worry about being late--come when you can.

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Who attended?

    • “ A discussion of nothingness and emptiness that was far from hollow. ”
    • “ I enjoyed the philosophical ?fencing? with the defenders of Heidegger. But I remain skeptical about Heidegger's 'nothingness.' Some decades before Heidegger took some of us on a bewildering trip into metaphysical obscurity, Nietzsche had his ?Zarathustra? (Thus Spake Zarathustra) express a healthy dissent concerning talk of ?afterworld? and Being: It was suffering and incapacity that created all afterworlds ?. A weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want anymore: this created all gods and afterworlds. -- Believe me my brothers: It was .. the body that despaired of the earth and heard the belly of being speak to it. It wanted to crash through the ultimate walls. Over there to ?that world.? But ?that world? is well concealed from humans ? that dehumanized, inhuman world which is a heavenly nothing; and the belly of being does not speak to humans at all, except as a human. -- ”
    • “ Always stimulating and a thoughtful and respectful (even in disagreement) group. ”