Subject: Re: o/o
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 23:22:58 +0100


does anyone on this list want to practice German?  If so reply to:
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ciao,
Paul Murphy
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From: "allen scult" <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
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Subject: Re: o/o


> >   My "Heidegger" folder is stuffed full of the o/o threads.
> >
> >One more, Jason, and thank you too.
> >
> >Heidegger: What is metaphysics?
> >http://www.msu.org/e&r/content_e&r/texts/heidegger/heidegger_wm2.html
> >
> >As surely as we can never comprehend absolutely the ensemble of beings in
> >themselves we certainly do find ourselves stationed in the midst of
beings
> >that are revealed somehow as a whole. In the end an essential distinction
> >prevails between comprehending the ensemble of beings in themselves and
> >finding oneself in the midst of beings as a whole. The former is
impossible
> >in principle. The latter happens all the time in our existence. It does
> >seem as though we cling to this or that particular being, precisely in
our
> >everyday preoccupations, as though we were completely abandoned to this
or
> >that region of beings. No matter how fragmented our everyday existence
may
> >appear to be, however, it always deals with beings in a unity of the
> >whole, if only in a shadowy way. Even and precisely then when we are not
> >actually busy with things or ourselves this as a whole overcomes us  for
> >example in genuine boredom. Boredom is still distant when it is only this
> >book or that play, that business or this idleness, that drags on. It
> >irrupts when one is bored. [es ist einem langweilig] Profound boredom,
> >drifting here and there in the abysses of our existence like a muffling
> >fog, removes all things and men and oneself along with it into a
remarkable
> >indifference. This boredom reveals beings as a whole.
> >      Another possibility of such revelation is concealed in our joy in
the
> >present existence  and not simply in the person  of a human      being
> >whom we love. Such being attuned, in which we are one way or another and
> >which determines us through and through, lets us           find ourselves
> >among beings as a whole. The founding mode of attunement [die
> >Befindlichkeit der Stimmung] not only reveals beings           as a whole
> >in various ways, but this revealing  far from being merely incidental  is
> >also the basic occurrence of our Da-sein.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >This is more than interesting: I just flipped
> >open Botho Strauss, "Beginnlosigkeit" (An-archy),
> >
> >(There is much philosophy in this author.
> >And science: the steady-state theory,
> >a world without a beginning)
> >
> >The ontological is not a thing, no-thing.
> >'Something' in German is 'Etwas'
> >Strauss coins the word: Abwas, no-thing,
> >Ab-wesen, ab-sence. Abthing
> >
> >p. 57, my rendering:
> >
> >"The Abwas is a thing of absence and seemingly
> >a thing of remembrance. Still its activity is that of a
> >the hole of a funnel: it effaces, it abstracts remembrance.
> >An abthing posesses thousand suckers, is one
> >worldabsucking plasmodium.
> >
> >When the abthing effaces every thing: when for instance
> >a missing person fills out your whole being-there, more
> >than his presence ever could do.
> >
>
> Rene,
>
> Such a moment seems to indicate that thinking Befindlichkeit in the
> midst of beings as whole is
> equally impossible.  The attempt to think an absence as "more than
> his presence could
> ever do" is just the sort of impossibility that philosophy thrives
> on.  Of course, the moment
> itself happens all the time, but the attempt to think it, especially
> as a thing of rememberence, isolates
> one "inside" Dasein such that all one can do to assuage the pain of
> the "missing"  is to "fill out"
> no-thing by looking to be at home everywhere at once," i.e. at home
> in the midst of beings as a whole.
>
> regards,
>
> Allen
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