This book uses the aphorist methodology to enter into a discourse with philosophers in an attempt to engage in philosophizing. The aphorism is often compared to the concept of sutra. The key insight was in ascertaining Nietzsche’s depth and understanding of the methodology of aphorisms. This is not an introduction or a summary of Heidegger or Nietzsche. In fact, even though a fair number of philosophers are discussed this book is not just concerning them. All of the great philosophers Plato, Aristotle, Descartes, Kant, Schelling, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger uniquely and creatively altered the very nature of philosophy through the fundamental and radical transformation of the essential nature of philosophical thinking and methodology. This is a modern and a post-modern critical encounter with these philosophers by a thinker and a philosopher. It is an example of philosophizing and it is not a simple summary of philosophical thinking. It is the actual raw process of thinking with them. There is also a portion of this book about philosophy in general using the methodology of the aphorism.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR Daniel Fidel Ferrer
Daniel Fidel Ferrer studied philosophy at Western Michigan University, Duquesne University, and two years at Banaras Hindu University. With a background in anthropology, comparative religion, theology, philosophy, he has concentrated on German philosophy: Kant, Hegel, Schelling, Holderlin, Nietzsche, and Heldegger. His first publications dating back over thirty years ago were on Nietzsche, Hegal and Heidegger. He has given presentations to a wide variety of venues; the Heraclitean Society, Banaras Hindu University Philosophy Department, Indian Philosophical Congress (India), Michigan Academy of Science, Arts, and Letters, Victoria University of Wellington (New Zealand), University of South Pacific (Fiji), International Conference of the Heidegger Research Group (Germany), and International Heidegger Dialogue (Germany). He had published articles and technical reports on computers, computer security, libraries, library automation, bibliometrics, poetry, religion, astronomy, Tibetan Buddhism, and of course philosophy. He has done consulting work for the Food and Agriculture Organization, United Nations; International Development Research Centre (IDRC), Canada; the United States Department of Commerce, Washsington, D.C;; and the United States Department of Education, Washington, D.C. Currently, he lives in a small town in the Midwest of America, Mount Pleasant, Michigan and thinks about the nature of Philosophizing.
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