Heidegger and the Quest for the Sacred

Schalow, Frank

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“…It has been shown that Coordination Dynamics Therapy (CDT) can improve or repair central nervous system (CNS) functioning after stroke [1], traumatic brain injury [2, 3], spinal cord injury (SCI) [4-8], cerebellar injury [9], cerebral palsy [10], hypoxic brain injury [11], in Parkinson's disease [12], spina bifida (myelomeningocele) [13] and scoliosis [14]. Speech had been induced and improved in a patient with severe cerebral palsy [15].…”

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Cure-Like Brain-Repair in a Girl with Atrophied Cerebellum and Pons through Coordination Dynamics Therapy

Schalow¹

2021

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The cerebral palsy girl Sophie had from birth an atrophy of the cerebellum and ponds. At an age of 5.5, Coordination Dynamics Therapy was started. At the beginning, Sophie was incontinent and her speech was very poor. She could not stand, walk, run or jump. When falling, her protection automatism patterns were not working. The first fundamental progress in repair was achieved when the protection automatisms appeared in Sophie at an age of 6.5 years. The parents were not so much afraid anymore when trying to make her walking and Sophie tried now to walk by herself. The protection automatisms became operational at a time when she became able to exercise by herself on a special coordination dynamics therapy device. When the protection automatism occurred, the learning to walk became much easier and less risky. Sophie was not afraid anymore to fall and she tried herself now to walk without falling and she liked it. At an age of 8 she was able to walk without falling. Sophie's trot gait crawling improved. The pace gait crawling became possible with poor performance. At an age of 9, Sophie could creep, crawl, upright, walk, jump and play with a ball. She was fully continent. Her speech had improved, so that the Author started to understand her. Her writing got better and her higher mental functions improved. She still had some problems with the balance, but she managed without falling. She was not able to run. The mother, teacher by herself, taught her at home. Through 6 years of CDT, at an age of 12 years, Sophie could fully manage the balance. She became able to run and jump freely and walk to a 1km distant supermarket for shopping.Sophies cerebellar and pons repair is compared with the repair of a traumatic cerebellar and pons injury and her repair-stimulated development is compared with the development of healthy children in the age range between 3 and 18 years, quantified by coordination dynamics values and the ontogenetic landscape for locomotion, based on the System Theory of Pattern formation. Sophie could not fully catch-up so far with the normal development. Further therapy is needed. The health of normal pupils could be enhanced if the training on the special coordination dynamics therapy device would be included in school sport.

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Cure-Like Brain-Repair in a Girl with Atrophied Cerebellum and Pons through Coordination Dynamics Therapy

Schalow¹

2021

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“…It is not an in-depth analysis and rendering of Heidegger's engagement with the notion of the death of God, nor does it engage with the multitude of scholarship on the topic. 4 Rather, the work as a whole is an argument for Platonic and Cartesian theism over and against a Nietzschean atheistic nihilism. Heidegger's work provides Armitage a useful heuristic within which to couch this argument and recount the history of Western metaphysics as the history of Platonism and its inversion by Nietzsche.…”

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Heidegger and the Death of God: Between Plato and Nietzsche, by Duane Armitage

Blakeburn

2017

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Between Plato and Nietzsche, analyzes the epistemological commitments of Martin Heidegger in terms of the polarity offered by Plato and Nietzsche as they argue for the proper account of reality, that is, the ontological status of intelligibility, meaning, truth, and being. On the one hand, Plato represents a transcendent idealism, that of the forms, in which truth, being, and intelligibility are mind-independent, thus grounding the changing sensible world on the fixed, invisible world of being. Moreover, this Platonism is inherently theistic, grounding the intelligibility of being in the existence of God (much like the rational theism of Cartesianism for which Armitage also advocates). On the other hand, Nietzsche represents the gross materialistic reductionism of modern science and technology that results in an atheistic nihilism and relativism. This Nietzscheanism reduces all metaphysical claims to natural processes and the will to power -things are true insofar as they are of use to the exercise of one's will, including notions of God. Armitage situates Heidegger in the midst of this battle between the giants of materialism (Nietzsche) and the gods of idealism (Plato), with reference to the Gigantomachy rhetorically sketched by Plato in The Sophist. Heidegger offers Armitage a purported third way to overcome metaphysics outside the boundaries of the battle between the gods and giants: a perspectival understanding of being that mediates the two realms of being and becoming through a rendering of the Platonic notion of methexis (participation) via alethia (truth). Heidegger comes close to resolving the Gigantomachy with what Armitage describes as his "meta-metaphysical" position on the importance and necessity of doing metaphysics and his attempt to overcome nihilism via art. Yet even Heidegger's attempted third way via art is itself already posited by Plato, as noted by John Sallis, leaving one caught amidst the battle of the Gigantomachy. Building on the work of Thomas Nagel, Armitage advocates for the necessity of metaphysics and transcendence in the manner of Plato's ontologically independent forms. Ultimately, Armitage argues that both Nietzsche and Heidegger fail to sufficiently ground the intelligibility of being and truth.Armitage structures the text well, concisely rendering each chapter. In the introductory chapter, Armitage sketches the gist of his argument, highlighting the stakes of the Gigantomachy with an either-or proposition. Either meaning, intelligibility, logic, reason, etc. are real or they are not. If yes, then Platonism and Theism. If no, then Nietzcheanism and atheistic nihilism (6). In the second chapter, Armitage criticizes Nietzsche's philosophy of science as a self-defeating materialism and atheism that relies on making metaphysical truth claims which become a merely

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Authenticity: The Capacity for Authenticity, Congruence, Genuineness, and Realness

Hannush

2021

Markers of Psychosocial Maturation

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Heidegger and the Quest for the Sacred

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Cure-Like Brain-Repair in a Girl with Atrophied Cerebellum and Pons through Coordination Dynamics Therapy

Cure-Like Brain-Repair in a Girl with Atrophied Cerebellum and Pons through Coordination Dynamics Therapy

Heidegger and the Death of God: Between Plato and Nietzsche, by Duane Armitage

Authenticity: The Capacity for Authenticity, Congruence, Genuineness, and Realness

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