File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9803, message 181


From: "Anthony Crifasi" <Anthony.Crifasi-AT-flash.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 1998 07:25:48 +0000
Subject: Re: Archetypes or Da?


Michael Eldred wrote:

> possibilities of existing in the world. Such many-fold possibilities are 
> embedded in ongoing propriation that appropriates human being to being and 
> allows each being to come into its very own. 
> 
> One under-estimates the shift in such thinking when one `grasps' it merely as 
> edifying philosophy that could be `employed' for the ethical education of 
> humankind. Any conception of a (mere) shift in `value systems' or `world views' 
> must fall short of letting itself in for the transformation of the essencing of 
> truth itself and our belonging to the latter. The current wave of ethics in 
> philosophy (including normative foundations, ecological ethics and the like) is 
> just one more wild goose chase to keep the academic community concerned and 
> employed, for, in not venturing to take leave of the metaphysics of 
> subjectivity, the illusion is nourished that we humans in our self-centred 
> subjectivity are the be-all and end-all of the world (who must then be called to 
> responsibility) instead of, in truth, being the recipient and plaything of the 
> world in its many-fold and time-ly openness. 

As a defender of Heidegger against the "metaphysics of subjectivity," 
I find myself agreeing with what you say here. Yet, should we be 
troubled that "being the recipient and plaything of the world in its 
many-fold and time-ly openness" includes Naziism, as is evident not 
only philosophically from Heidegger's analytic, but in Heidegger's 
own life? Or is such an "ethical" accusation merely "one more wild 
goose chase to keep the academic community concerned and employed"? 
It is obvious that Being-in includes Being-in-an-"ethical"-world too. 
But can there be any more specificity than this? After all, Naziism 
is also one possibiltiy of the world "in its many-fold and time-ly 
oppenness." Or is it impossible for the defender of Heidegger against 
the "metaphysics of subjectivity" to exclude Naziism as one 
possibilty of ethical Being-in?

Anthony Crifasi


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