Date: Thu, 22 Aug 1996 08:32:43 -0700 (PDT) From: frascati-AT-unixg.ubc.ca (Marta Frascati) Subject: Re: filter and heritage >is the quest for stable knowledge a metaphysical illusion? Rafael, I would like to bring to your attention another text of G. Vattimo that might help you regarding the above question. From one of his latest books " Oltre l'Interpretazione"( Laterza, Bari) the chapter " La Scienza" is very important. If for "stable knowledge" we mean scientific knowledge, following Heidegger, we have to say that it is metaphysical. Science contributes to the reduction of the world to that chain of cause and effects that makes it more manipulative by us human beings. But at the same time Science exceeds it own metaphysicsal essence ( or metaphysics autodeconstructs itself, to say it in Nietzschean terms) and the science-technique dissolves the metaphysical characteristics of the subject and of Being and according to Vattimo" becomes the principal agent of a nihilistic transformation of the meaning/direction of Being, and .. a positive preparation of a world in which there are no more facts, only intrepretations" ( OI pag.33) In modern technology, for example,in the "virtual un/reality" of computer informatique ( David Lochhead 95), the world becomes a fable. And as Nieztsche says with the real world also the apparent world disappears. Therefore, coming back to your question " is the quest for a stable knowledge a metaphysical illusion?" The answer is: yes and no. Marta Marta Frascati "Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita mi ritrovai per una selva oscura che la diritta via era smarrita". Dante, Inferno, Canto I --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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