On Time, Being, and Hunger: Challenging the Traditional Way of Thinking Life
Juan Manuel Garrido
Abstract
The unprecedented proliferation of discourses and techniques concerning the living being has left philosophy in a stupefying situation. We no longer know what phenomenon deserves to be called “life,” and we no longer know how to ask the question “what is life?” The traditional way of understanding life as self-appropriating and self-organizing process of not ceasing to be, of taking care of one's own hunger, is challenged. This challenge entails questioning fundamental concepts of metaphysical thinking, namely, time, finality, and above all being and existing. In this study, the author propose ... More
Keywords: Time, Being, hunger, phenomenology, ontology, life, life sciences, Aristotle, Heidegger
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780823239351 |
| Published to Fordham Scholarship Online: September 2012 | DOI:10.5422/fordham/9780823239351.001.0001 |
