Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 18:09:11 +0200
Subject: Re: Ge-lassen-heit


At 11:33 26-4-01 -0500, Allen wrote:


Rene:
Witgenstein does exactly the opposite thing. He concentrates on the
unbridgeable difference of sign and world., like Magritte's "this is not a
pipe". No,
the picture of a pipe isn't a pipe itself. Objectivity has become so
doubtful to him, that
of a headache I can't even say, it's mine. It's the same in everybody, that
have it. I
think, Nietzsche does better: subject-object as necessary belief in order
to stabilize life.

Allen:
Or as Aristotle has it , we "invent," "think of" (Heurein) the situation
we're in in order in order to make a judgement about it, thereby bringing
the situation  about as what we think it is. Of all the circles you so
nicely brought to bear on the question, I think Aristotle comes closest to
thinking the question of "how one becomes who one is. "

Aristotle's view of the emotions in Book II of the Rhetoric, I think
provides an excellent example of how Aristotle parses the hermeneutical
situation in which the self is "found," (our  Befindlichkeit):

" The emotions are those things through which, by undergoing change, people
come to differ in their judgments. . . " 1378a

One feels anger which provides the mood in which one understands a
situation, but the way one understands the situation and oneself in it is
already in motion as one begins to feel angry.  Then it becomes a matter of
how one calibrates the anger on the way to acting upon it which constitutes
the judgment whereby one's understanding of the situation ( the situation
itself!) is rendered "complete"( at least for the moment).

Aristotle proves the emotions can be "thought" as well as color, leading
Heidegger to see Book II on the emotions  as the first ( and perhaps only)
"hermeneutic of everyday life."


Allen,

I see, yes.  This confirms to me - but I'll read your article in the next
days - that one can
only read in socalled historical philosophy, what one is able to think
oneself. 
Later...

Regards,

Rene



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