Date: Sat, 17 Aug 96 13:55 +0100
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (M.Eldred_artefact)
Subject: RE: Oedipal issues


Cologne, 17 August 1996

Iain has written a fascinating post about Oedipus, death and patricide, ending 
by making a connection with "doing violence to the father" (Sophist 241d), 
Parmenides and his maintaining that "not only what is non-being is in a certain 
way but also that what is being conversely is in some way not being" (241d). 
("being" here verbally-participially.)

I cannot do justice to Iain's post at the moment and off the cuff, but it seems 
there are problems of demarcation or delimitation between being and non-being. 
Does Heidegger return to the question of being in its de-limit-ation? Does 
metaphysics attempt to draw the line? Does the thinking of being bring the line 
into question? Could this mean, as one of its consequences, that the line 
between life and death could become osmotic? 

Heidegger's voluminous early 'Sophistes' lectures (GA 19), which I have not yet 
read, could help here, perhaps. 

Chaire apeiron,
Michael
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