Date: Tue, 18 Jul 1995 23:37:38 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: BT, Section 45



On Tue, 18 Jul 1995, David Blacker wrote:

> Finitude is the "reason" for any movement between
> authenticity-inauthenticity:  eg the various forms of fleeing toward
> inauthenticity, and back in the other direction, going "under the eyes of
> death" toward authenticity.  Make any sense?
> 
> David                                 

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Yes, yes it does.  However, my real question here is *WHY* is finitude 
the primary condition for the possibility of authenticity and 
inauthenticity?  I understand the quasi-Kantian maneuver, and I agree 
with your claim that in BT and in his other early works Heidegger is much 
inclined to making such a maneuver.  What I don't understand is how 
finitude is supposed to be a necessary condition of in/authenticity.

Any ideas?


Thanks for the cool comments,

David Schenk.


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