Subject: Re: Being and Time-section one
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:14:27 -0800




Subject: RE: Being and Time-section one


> I thought we already had? Something about time as the
horizon of
> being...

Time being?

I suspect there are 2 times: one called chronos, and one
called kairos. One is called succession, and one called
care.

If we assume that time is the 'horizon' of being, then time
must have an 'image' since a horizon is the visual limit of
seeing and or perception. In terms of an ontological answer
to being, the supreme phenomenon of time, being is the limit
and the image.

Again the horizon is a 'metaphorical' form of knowing. This
being, called time, thus is not derived from inferential
wisdom - rather is incipient and 'already' but not there
yet. Dasein is there...but time is 'already' circumscribing
all relata as pre-processive.

Da Da

There There

John Foster





> As to the question of being, according to Heidegger it
lacks an answer
> in traditional philosophy because the question itself was
never
> rigorously formulated. What do you think of being as
'thisness' or the
> 'indeterminate immediate' that is at once already
obviously meaningful
> and purely self-evident, yet at the same time an
indefinable concept in
> terms of traditional logic?

Heidegger does not deny that it is the most abstract,
general, indefinable
and self-understood concept. But, says he, the so-called
self-understanding
mostly hides its misunderstanding. It is indefinable,
because we cannot
point a finger at it and we cannot point the language at it,
in the usual
way of saying what does it belong to and how does it differ
from that. The
to be cannot be "here", "around", etc., without its will of
manifesting
itself there. In the mystical language this is called
revelation, while
Heidegger calls it self-showing, situating-in-the-open,
unhiding.

For, truth is the truth of beings, and it is imparted by the
to be. This
means that the truth is one with the to be. All truths are
just
self-showings of the truth, i.e. the shinning of the to be,
as one becomes
suddenly aware that he makes use of light (which was already
present in his
world) in order to see. Seeing that you see is the
self-showing of light.

Gigantomachia peri tes ousias!

Tudor Georgescu

http://intellect-club.nl.eu.org

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