File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9806, message 118


Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 08:07:22 -0700
From: Mike Staples <mstaples-AT-argusqa.com>
Subject: Re: Mind & Body, One More Time


Allen Scult wrote:

> What if we begin with the depressed person as a particular embodied
> subject
> and "think" that particular embodied subject as what Sartre calls a "
> singular universal." The following characterization of this concept is
> from
> a recent piece in JBSP by Daniel and Homes:  as a singular universal,
> the
> embodied subject is seen as " a particular project flowing from his
> particular way of experiencing, reconciling and pusuing his needs and
> desires in all their contradictions and complexity; and as a universal
> in
> the sense of being responsive to and responsible for being an example
> of
> someone who was inserted in this particular context."

That's pretty interesting, Allen. Do you see this description of a
"singularl universal" as consistent with Michael E.'s dinstinction
between viewing Dasein as a "whole" versus a broken leg as a "part"?

Michael Staples



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