Can a question of human existence as consciousness be coherently posed?

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Workshop # 1, Human Existence, Series 13, This event begins 7.30 pm S'pore & WA time, 12.30 pm UK, 7.30 am NY. An AI summary of the meeting will be in the relevant Youtube comments. You will need to view the relevant podcast below on YouTube before joining the meeting in order to participate in the discussion. https://youtu.be/u9iATSvmfJs I know it's stupid, but please click 'like', as it promotes circulation. Join this group at meetup.com/philosophy-of-value-workshops And buy my book The Pursuit of Value from Amazon.com Books The workshops include of a prior presentation of the topic by myself on YouTube that you need to watch. The meeting itself consists of a brief review of the topic followed by questions and discussion. The weekly topic is posted a week before the event, together with a suggested reading from my work The Pursuit of Value, available through Amazon Books or myself. Transcripts of the Youtube presentation are available by email. THIS WEEK: The idea of human existence raises the issue of whether it can be posed as a coherent question at all, because it’s too amorphous, diverse and variable. Wittgenstein, for instance, states that “What we cannot speak about we must pass over” and he thereby attempts to ‘dissolve’— with linguistic analysis— rather than resolve such questions. Yet Heidegger tells us that the “Being of one’s own Dasein is an issue”, and he proceeds to explain how it can be resolved with care and authenticity. In more ordinary language, we can ask whether any seminal question of human existence be posed and answered in terms of consciousness and value? Reading: The Pursuit of Value, Introduction.