Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 18:02:01 +0200
Subject: Re:  truth


Cologne, 15 July 1998

Jdbarrett1-AT-aol.com schrieb:
> (By the way, how does one copy exerpts from a post so that those ">" symbols
> appear on the left?  Is it just a matter of copying and pasting? Or are there
> a few commands related to this kind of internet forum business that I don't
> know about?)

It depends on your e-mail editor, Jason. Do you have an “answer” or “reply” 
button?

> But, the little I know points "event" as a common meaning of Ereignis.  I also
> know, however, that the root "eigen-" shows up in "eigene" meaning "own".
> This makes sense to me, as H. often writes in B&T of the "ownmost"
> possibilities of Dasein, the ones not filtered through the They but disclosed
> in the moment (Augenblick).  But I don't see how Ereignis as propriation
> (making one's own, taking unto oneself?) retains the sense of event, and I
> would think such a retaining would be important to Heidegger since elsewhere
> he speaks of the "event of Being" or the "happening of Being."
>
> My German Etymological Dictionary (Duden's Herkunftsworterbuch, Band 7), which
> I am not able to read and understand yet with much confidence, suggests that
> the development of the word itself is a little screwed up.  I may be wrong,
> but it looks as if Eriegnis originates from "er-augen" (to come before the
> eye, literally?) which seems to have been misconstrued as a formation from
> "eignen" (self) which it's really a formation of "augen" (eye).  The orignary
> meaning "sich zeigen" (to show itself?), from which "happen" or "event" seems
> to be a natural development.
>
> Does H., when he uses "Ereignis" want us to think of Being "showing itself" or
> propriation or what?  

Your reading of the Duden Herkunftswoerterbuch seems OK. H. lets the polysemy 
play, but wants Ereignis to mean more than just event or happening. The 
showing-of-itself is also an ap-propriating of human being to beyng, i.e. to 
where human beings in their essencing properly belong as beyng’s property. The 
opening of beyng is a laying-claim on human being as Dasein. Humans become human 
beings through exposure to the Da of timespace. Standing out in the openness of 
timespace, Dasein has to bring itself to stand against the horizon of time on 
which beings are understood. Time is the preliminary name in H.’s thinking for 
the truth of beyng, or _alaetheia_. 

Michael
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