In subsections 21 and 22 of section 101 we read of the “scions and consequences of Platonism,” aka the ideological lineage of liberalism, as theories that adopt values, meanings, ideas and ideals; self-evident ways of questioning; and “life-philosophy” that results in “extreme confusion raised to a principle (aka transcendence).” We then discuss some post-liberal approaches…

Continuing through section 110, we read of the history of idealism coming down from Plato, which Heidegger claims is in fact a history of realism in which the subject is transcendent and the truth of being is unquestioned. From here we discuss some of the symptoms and manifestations of the liberal addiction to transcendence in…

In the section that begins “Hegel’s concept of the idea,” we read about the various determinations of the history of the idea that are encapsulated in Hegel’s absolute self-knowing spirit and told that all post-Hegelian philosophies are mere submissive iterations of this core concept. We then discuss how this idea of the idea plays into…

In subsections 11-14 of section 110 we read about Platonism having been transformed from “idealism” to “realism” via the res becoming essentia. This manifests in the I, via cogito ergo sum, being mathetically linked to thinking, as well as the perceptum being taken for existence. From here we spin off to discuss the identitarian and…

Continuing thru section 110, we read of a set of prescriptive relations that the the liberal worldview perpetuates through its valuation-centered reach beyond being: the relation of form to soul, essence to seeing, community to discourse, and good to love. We also analyze how the subject/object dichotomy and the higher valuation of the subject inherent…

In section 110, subsection 5, we paddle our way through some ancient Greek to discover Heidegger reverse engineering the movement of the liberal mind beyond beingness in search of being’s fulfillment in value, happiness, ideals, meaning, and more. All of this means the guiding question of what beings are is unoriginally addressed. What post-liberalism might…

In sections 108, 109, and part of 110, we read about the basic metaphysical interpretations of space and time, the idea or Platonic form as the look of something, and how the individual and the changeable become non-being in the realm of objective constant presence. We then discuss various pivot points from liberalism to post-liberalism…

In sections 106 and 107 we read of Heidegger’s insistence on the need for a fundamental ontology that will address the basic questions of being’s essential occurrence and the truth of being. We also read of the difference between, and the collusion of, metaphysica generalis and metaphysica specialis. We spin off from these discussions to…

In sections 103 -105 we read a taxonomy of the epistemological fundaments of German Idealism, which spawned the Marxism and Post-Structuralism that overtook American and European universities and cultures beginning in the 1960’s and up to today. As the self is elevated into representational certainty, external enforcement of its formula begins. This can be seen…