From: "Laurence Paul Hemming" <lph-AT-dircon.co.uk>
Subject: Self-evidently so ...
Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 08:39:54 +0100


On waking, I find two posts this morning make a similar suggestion:

>George Steiner makes several references to Heidegger's work; "Replace
>Sein by 'God' in all the key passages and their meaning becomes
>pellucid."

>Reading "The Origin of the Work of Art" by replacing the notion of "Art
>Work" with the notion of "Psychotherapeutic Work" is pretty interesting

Of course it's more simple than that.  I have long known that if I replace
all occurrences of the term "Dasein" in the Gesamtausgabe with "my
Grandmother", it's clear that Heidegger was actually talking about my
Grandmother.  I wish she'd mentioned it.  I wonder I never saw it before.

Or just perhaps "God", "Psychotherapeutic Work" and "my Grandmother" do not
always name self-evidences (maybe Heidegger even knew this himself?)?  Might
Heidegger himself have thought that being and God were not the same?  Did
no-one ever bother to ask him whether he thought they were - was it so
self-evident what the answer was (actually, yes they did ... GA15 p. 436)?
Now what do I do?

Laurence.



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