‘Now what does the word “phusis” say? It says what emerges from itself (for example, the emergence, the […]
Category Archive: Metaphysics
Certainly—giving up the ordinary and going back into questioning interpretation is a leap. Only one who takes the right running start can leap. Everything is decided by this run
— MARTIN HEIDEGGER
This is the continuation of Being as Place: Introduction to Metaphysics – Part One, where I presented Heidegger’s […]
Based on the new translation of Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (2000), this article, aside from presenting Heidegger’s metaphysical […]
On the Structure of Reality
“… static patterns of value are divided into four systems: inorganic patterns, biological patterns, social patterns and intellectual […]
Since I was an undergraduate student at the School of Architecture, Politecnico di Milano, in the 1990s, the […]
… does not. Heidegger’s introductive paragraph of the book What Is a Thing? — which is the extended […]
1. The Fabric of Reality and its Continuum In this article, I will use the terms continuum, physical […]
I briefly come back to the renewed sense of place I’ve spoken about in the previous article – […]
The traditional and well-established meaning of a concept crystallized into a specific word should be the starting point […]
The potency of place must be a marvelous thing, and take precedence of all other things… That is what place (topos) is: the first unchangeable limit (peras) of that which surrounds.
— ARISTOTLE
1. Young Man at His Window This is just common sense: look out the window of your home […]
To be (at all) is to be in (some) place.
— ARCHYTIAN AXIOM
rethinking space and place 