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From: "Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro" <capurro-AT-hbi-stuttgart.de>
Subject: Re: Dasein, universals, particulars
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 05:29:04 +0200


michael,

you remember GA 20 where H. states (p.223) that a snail (schnecke) does not
establishes a relationship to the world whe he/she (!) comes out of its
_house_ (_gehaeuse_), but that this means _only_ a modification of its
(her/his) already-being-in-the-world. This cannot be said, states H., from
water in a glas, i.e. if it could be said, then we should say that water has
the way of being of Dasein. (H. is comparing _the subject and its inner
sphere_ with a snail in its house).
In other words, Dasein may not necessarily be related to being-human.
There are many questions here:
- what is the meaning of the term: _Seinsweise_ ? does it make any sense to
differentiate _Seinsweisen_ (the Seinsweise of the dog is to _dog-ify_?!),
whereas science admits only _eigenschaften_
- is there a common ground between the ways is _being-in_ of living beings?
(cf. H. text on plants, animals and human beings regarding it openness, and
H. remark on the specific richness of the openness of non-human living
beings)
- the relationship (foundational?) between Dasein and consciousness: we can
be consious because we are open to the world (not the other way around)
- if Dasein is a _neutral_ way of being: can there be an _artificial_
Dasein, for instance, or a non-human Dasein?
Anyway it seems to me that Dasein concerns a specific way of
being-in-the-world, but that H. identifies this with human-being without
excluding other possibilities (or at least without excluding a conceptual
difference between Dasein as a _structure_ and Dasein as _being human_)
as a phenomenologist H. is interested in describing _what is_, and not in
speculations.
rafael


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Von: Michael Eldred <artefact-AT-t-online.de>
An: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
<heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU>
Datum: Dienstag, 16. Juni 1998 19:16
Betreff: Re: Dasein, universals, particulars


Cologne 16 June 1998

jim schrieb:
> I have a question for anybody. ...
> The question is: what is it in virtue of
> which we Dasein resemble each other. Is there, or must we posit, some
> one 'item' (a universal) that is not only repeatable, but which each of us
> severally and separately instantiate? If that is the case, then how can an
> essentially reflexive ek-sistere be the essence of Dasein??? If some such
> 'item' is what renders a Dasein to be the Dasein which it is, if some such
> item is what explains our resemblance, then that item cannot be some
> singular ek-sistere particular. If this item were some particular, there
> could only be one, unique Dasein, but several 'bare' resemblances. But
> clearly that is not a position for which H argues or would argue.
>
> If Dasein is not a universal, then can we argue that each of the several
> Dasein is its own particular nature, but that each particular Dasein
> exactly resembles each other, and leave exact resemblance as a
> primitive notion. Their resemblance is born from their own separate
> natures. That is to say, in short, Dasein is a particularized universal.
>
> One response might be that the entire line of questioning is misguided.

Yes, it seems to me misguided, Jim, since it presupposes that Dasein somehow
has
to fit into the categories of universal and particular. Dasein is not an
“item”
which can be attributed or not attributed to beings, nor is it a term for
human
beings to denote a “resemblance”. Rather, Dasein is a mode of being, and
being
is neither a universal, nor a particular. This is what Aristotle (as against
Plato) clearly saw (cf. A. _Metaphysics_ 998b22 _...oute to on einai genos_
and
H. GA33:35ff). Dasein is a mode of being in which humans ‘participate’ and
by
virtue of which they are ek-sisting human beings. Dasein is a name for human
being, not for humans as beings. Dasein is the essence of human being, or,
to
use an archaic form of the verb “to be”, Dasein is human wesan, i.e.
ek-sistence.

We humans do not just “resemble” each other through having a particular
“item”,
but are the Same in essence (or nature) through ek-sisting, i.e. being in a
certain mode.

Michael
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