Sentences with phrase «inanimate modes of being»

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Vorhanden, which Heidegger uses of the peculiar mode of being characteristic of inanimate objects, as contrasted with responsible human Dasein, I have translated by «tangible», as in Bultmann the antithesis is not so much between Vorhandensein and Dasein as between the tangible realities of the visible world and eternal realities, very much like the Pauline contrast of kata sarka and kata pneuma.

Mind, which is deeply creative and new in its essential mode of operation, can not then be explained in terms of any mechanical abstraction of the properties of inanimate matter.