Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2003 12:31:20 -0600
Subject: Re: the o/o gulf


>At 14:58 24-3-03 +0000, you wrote:
>  >Rene de Bakker wrote:
>
>
>
>I pause here, because if you don't act hermeneutically now and
>get stuck in an anti-desert, further discussion makes no sense,
>esp. because positions (Beying) are at stake, for which we're still
>much too green. It took Heidegger many years to break through
>subjective (in the widest sense) casting, transcendence, Dasein
>as the ontological clearmaker of the ontical.
>
>rene
>
>
>Focus: Being is hidden. It resists ontological understanding.



I have just returned from somewhere else, no tv, only spotty news. 
Where was I?  When was I ? What was I thinking/ doing/making?  And 
most importantly, with whom shall I speak about it (very much a 
deciding factor in what I might say)?

It reminds me of a "time" in Peru in 1967.  I left the city and 
headed out into a beautiful high desert, but nowhere marked by 
anything particular.  When I returned, the 'Six-Day War" had come and 
gone.  I found myself "out of place and time"  but very much in a 
time and place which I was unwilling to leave.  Who were these "World 
Leaders" to determine my coming and going, my time and place?  They 
were of course wlling-to-power their own interests-in-the-world. An 
inferior version  of  having a world.   Not at all thought, or even 
thinkable.

I can't go through all the posts, but Michael's stood out as  seeming 
to will not to "take sides."  Someone else argued that in itself was 
taking sides.  But who gets to de-cide what the sides even are?  Is 
there not an undiscovered place in-side (and outside) all the sides? 
A place to forcefully commit one's thinking to the o.d.( perhaps 
without the distraction of the televised images of "truth" Michael E. 
alludes to)?

Regards,

Allen


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  Allen Scult					Dept. of Philosophy
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