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 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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