Subject: Re: the o/o gulf
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:49:58 -0800



Rene:

Anyway, ontical and (pre-) ontological are so opaquely
interweaved, that
their distinction is helpful only as a very provisional
device to make out
at a specific point, what the talk is about. Because at
first Being must be
understood in its questionability, a traditionally
metaphysical distinction
cannot decide anything. And when you think you don't have to
go that far,
that's true, because this metaphysics is in you, as in
everyone, insofar
Dasein.

regards

rene

I concur on this. The distinction re ontical and ontological
is largely 'interpretative' (hermuetic). The interrogation
of being (questioning) is the beginning of an ontological
understanding. Versus an 'acceptance' of what is
'there'....which is not a questioning. Hence the importance
of the indivisibility of the ontical and the
'pre-ontological'.

john

best regards

john




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Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering
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