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From: "henry sholar" <H_SHOLAR-AT-marta.uncg.edu>
Date:          Tue, 30 Jun 1998 7:06:55 EST
Subject:       Re: Mind & Body, One More Time


 I know that in SZ Heidegger tends to focus
>attention on this sort of resolute "willfullness" that he dropped later
>on in favor of something that he felt better expressed what he had in
>mind (some say, perhaps correctly, that he just changed his mind
>altogether...others don't think this was quite the case). I don't quite
>know what he means by, "...Dasein can, should, and must, through
>knowledge and will, become master of its moods..." It seems pretty
>black-and-white at first blush, but I can't quite buy this first-blush,
>surface interpretation.
>
>Michael Staples


i don't have SZ ready-to-hand, but i'm 'willing' to take a vorhanden
stab at it that heidegger is not claiming this as a mere assertion, 
 as a bald declarative statement.

if dasein can actually have a "towards-which"
 of "mastery of its own moods"
(leaving aside what that can even mean) 
it would make temporality something other
than what it is in the rest of the book.

Dasein always already finds itself with a Befindlichkeit
(mood, disposition, situatedness, where-yer-at-ness, etc.)

"...Dasein can, should, and must, through
>knowledge and will, become master of its moods..."
this sentence sounds the clear yet bluesy note
of heideggerian irony.  these are the shrubs and other
high ground cover we'remeant to walk thru
 on the path...

hope others agree,
henry



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