Tournament: TFA State 2k17 | Round: 2 | Opponent: Rohith Mandavilli | Judge: Jacob Koshak
Dwelling K
*I apologize for the gendered pronouns in the cards
ROB: is to vote for the debater who best opens questioning to ontology and maintains being
Ontology comes first—affects every mode of policymaking
Dillon 99 Michael Dillon; Moral Spaces: Rethinking Ethics and World Politics; 97-99
K Proper
Government housing can’t help people as they aren’t dwelling in the homes. they have no personal claim to them people must build homes or own the land on their own without government intervention
Ward 1
Anarchy in Action, Colin Ward, British anarchist writer, Honorary Doctor of Philosophy at Anglia Ruskin University. LONDON FREEDOM PRESS 1996, file:///C:/Users/alecxander23/Documents/Anarchism20-20Copy/Anarchy20in20Action.pdf
Living in a house does not guarantee dwelling looking at it in this sense blocks the view of the relationship between building and dwelling
Heidegger 51
Basic Writings: From Being and Time (1927) to the Task of Thinking (1964), Martin Heidegger, Harper Perenniel Modern Thought 1977. Building Dwelling Thinking, 1951
To build only to cultivate or care for ignores the real meaning of building which is to dwell this means when starting with this approach we can never ask the fundamental issue of dwelling as the meaning has been erased along with our being
Heidegger 51
Basic Writings: From Being and Time (1927) to the Task of Thinking (1964), Martin Heidegger, Harper Perenniel Modern Thought 1977. Building Dwelling Thinking, 1951
To solve the issue of homelessness is not to simply provide houses rather it requires the ontological questioning of what it means to dwell otherwise we will be forever homeless even in a home
Heidegger 51
Basic Writings: From Being and Time (1927) to the Task of Thinking (1964), Martin Heidegger, Harper Perenniel Modern Thought 1977. Building Dwelling Thinking, 1951
Loss of being destroys value to life – outweighs even extinction.
Zimmerman 94 (Michael, Prof of Philosophy @ Tulane, “Contesting Earth’s Future”, p.119-120)
Alt: Is to embrace anarcho-squatting
Anarcho Squatter settlements work and create a communal culture and life
Ward 04
Colin Ward The hidden history of housing 2004, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/colin-ward-the-hidden-history-of-housing
Squatter Settlements have succeeded for centuries and remained out of the dangerous poor relief cycle
Ward 04
Colin Ward The hidden history of housing 2004, https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/colin-ward-the-hidden-history-of-housing