Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:19:27 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: Mind & Body, One More Time


On Wed, 1 Jul 1998, Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro wrote:

> I have the impression that you read only half of the passage concerning
> moods. I have now present p. 136 of the German edition.
> H. states that Dasein may (could and should) become _factically_ master of a
> (!) mood, but (!) that this does not mean that being-in-the-mood is not
> primordial (to will and knowledge as ways of becoming master) and (!) that
> this mastering only (!) happens on the basis of another mood
> (_Gegenstimmung_) . Medard Boss writes: _Um-stimmung_ (p. 291 of his
> Grundriss). There is no will-to-power concerning moods in this passage.
> rafael

We have a certain extremism at work: on the factital end, mastery. On
the..."other" end, abject, uncognizeable thrownness (the causes of moods
are seen as beyond the cognitive powers of Dasien in Heidegger). 
Proximally and for the most part, neither of these is the case, I suggest.
Sheer being in a mood, i.e., that it is that Dasein has a mood, is one
thing, something that would refer us to Leibniz ("why is there something
and not simply nothing?", and to Heidegger's topology relating the various
existentialia). But the whence, wherefore, whither, hows, ways of moods
(the very stuff of therapeutics)  are more open to exploration than
Heidegger indicates. These, indeed, call for exploration and
understanding, as does Heidegger's characterization of Dasein's
resoluteness that is all too ready to shove aside so *many* things as
idle, meaningless, insignificant, uncognizeable, etc. The de-cognizing
and, in a way, desubstantializing of mood's causes and our relation to
them sets the stage precisely for will-to-power as resoluteness, which,
futher, is cast against a mistakenly characterized Dasein as predominantly
*irresolute* and lost in the "They", not to mention the "Him", a category
which escaped Heidegger's thinking altogether. 

TMB




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