Subject: Re: gulf
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 02:16:36 +0000


Malcolm Riddoch wrote:

>How do you integrate an authentic existential phenomenological method for 
>the disclosure of the temporality of Dasein into 'ontic 
>being-in-the-world'? I can understand this in an existentialist sense, as 
>in Dreyfus' notion of authenticity, but I would argue that an 
>existentialist interpretation precludes any fundamental ontology, Heidegger 
>certainly thought so.
>
>>But this can be applied to ANY way of being-in-the-world. A Nazi can be 
>>authentic.
>
>I guess Heidegger would agree with this since he was in fact a Nazi  :0
>
>>So can a Communist. Or a liberal democrat. So this kind of preference is 
>>not anything which can "decide" between two ontic sides. That would be an 
>>"ontic" preference.
>
>I'm not sure that this question of ethics and ontology is at all clear, 
>especially in regards to notions of authenticity, existentialist or 
>otherwise. I also don't really understand your ontological/ontic 
>distinctions, but I disagree with your notion of ontology so I guess that's 
>no surprise.

Well do you agree with this: any fundamental ontology of any and every 
being-in-the-world cannot possibly be "contrary to" or "exclude" any 
being-in-the-world (the way one ontic side can be "contrary to" or "exclude" 
another ontic side), precisely because it is supposed to be an ontology of 
any and every being-in-the-world? If so, then in such an ontology, no 
ethical principle or side can possibly have ontological preference, since 
ethical sides are contrary to other UN-ethical sides.

Anthony Crifasi

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