Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 07:55:04 -0500 (EST)
From: henry sholar <H_SHOLAR-AT-marta.uncg.edu>
Subject: Re: Heid & Jesus



>>>It is preferable to put up with the chaep accusations of
>>>atheism, which, if it is intended, ontically, is in fact
>>>completely correct. But might not the presumably ontic fait
>>>in God be at bottom godlessness? And might the genuine
>>>metaphysician be more religious than the usual faithful,
>>>than the members of a 'church' or even than the 'theologians'

I'd like to respond in as sympathetic a reading of the text as possible (a 
ricoeurian 'hermeneutic of belief', eh wot?)

I only suggest that for heidegger, the questioning of being as piety, or as a pious 
practice leads him to make the above comments, and (per-haps) not out of 
arrogant ressentiment.  (Heidegger may be reflecting on a little self-criticism, 
which from that conservative Catholic culture he came from is seen as 
apostasy.)

the to and fro, in and out, nearness and distancing that is the questioning of 
being has one doing a tarantella with the divine.  One is quite simply in and 
out of the game at any given moment because that is the way questioning is.  
On an ontic level of description, per-haps the notion of a true believer has less 
to do with a conscious intent/testimonial than it does a dasein-esque 
authentic mode of being.  

Or, put another way:  since dasein is "interpretation all the way down" and 
constantly taking up cultural roles and practices to fall-in with everyone, 
doesn't "true belief" require something more than conscious intent???

kindest regards,
hen



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