Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 22:23:17 -0500 (CDT)
Subject: Re: Authenticity, again....................


On Sat, 22 Jul 1995, Tom Blancato wrote:

> Now, it seems to me that one of the conditions of 
> possibility of the shift, even simply the Being of the 
> difference between authenticity and inauthenticity is the 
> very "theme" of authenticity itself. In this respect, you 
> may be perhaps recapitulating the wrong-headed (if 
> intellectually well-intentioned) attempt to avoid 
> "tautology" or circular reasoning. Heidegger *might* say, 
> "authenticity is actual", just as Kant says that 
> "metaphysics is actual". Or he might say: it is primordial, 
> in which case the thing to do is not determine *its* 
> conditions of possibility but rather let it be one of the 
> conditions of possibility of other things, in showing and 
> explaining *their* Being.

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Yes, I think your comments here are plausible.  Heidegger did spend a lot
of energy talking about the necessary logical circularity of any proper
Daseinanalytik, so he might appeal to that to convince me that here
explanations must come to an end. 

I wouldn't believe him if he gave me such an explanation, of course, but
that's a whole separate matter from which I should probably steer clear
for now.

Anyway, I think it's time for me to move on from this issue and post a 
message on Chapter 3.  I'll try to do that tomorrow.


Thanks for the reponse,

David Schenk.


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