Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 22:54:22 +0200
Subject: Re:  Heidegger's helping
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)


Cologne, 30 October 1997

Dear Michael,

I blush (joy). 

Perhaps Heidegger's helping indeed.

I forgot to mention: _endechesthai_ means "to receive, admit, permit".
A beautiful, womanly word, don't you think?

Thanks, 
Michael
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Mike Staples schrieb:
> Michael Eldred wrote:
>
> > 'I think' as cogito is imaging/imagining thinking (vorstellendes
> > Denken) in
> > which the subject brings beings before itself in consciousness ('Ich
> > stelle
> > _mir_ vor...'). The movement of thought proceeds from the subject and
> > returns to
> > it -- with the 'booty'.
> >
> > The thinking of beyng is (the aethos of) an openness towards the
> > openness of
> > beyng in which the thinker grasps the words which say how human being
> > belongs to
> > beyng. The movement of thought here is a patient, waiting whiling that
> > has no
> > human subject i.e. as something underlying on which it is based.
> > Thoughts are a
> > gift of the openness and no longer a product (a guiding forth) of the
> > thinking,
> > imagining subject. Such thinking is _endechomenal_, i.e. open to
> > receiving what
> > is possible (Gk.: _ta endechomena_ = that which is possible).
> >
>
> and again:
>
> > Individuation and togetherness are no contradiction; on the contrary,
> > they are
> > necessarily simultaneous! This implies in particular that all thinking
> > has to
> > pass through an individual, but all thinking is always already shared
> > because
> > the openness of beyng is one (_unus_).
>
> and still:
>
> > The thinker as a recipient of the sayings of beyng is definitely on
> > his/her own,
> > lonely. To bear this loneliness one obvious strategy to regard oneself
> > as some
> > kind of hero. There's lots of this in Heidegger, and I read it as a
> > sign of
> > weakness, a way of coping.
>
> Me:
>
> Michael, these are some of the most poetically beautiful, interesting
> and informative passages I can even imagine. Your insight is
> extraordinarily moving at times.
>
> Michael Staples






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