Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 23:33:10 +0200
Subject: Re:  Mind & Body, One More Time
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)


Cologne, 01 July 1998


henry sholar schrieb:
> Reading the sentence in context helps. 

> "Factically, Dasein can, should, and must, 
> through knowledge and will, become master 
> of its moods; in certain possible ways of existing, 
> this may signify a priority of volition and cognition."
>
> (next sentence:  "Only we must not be misled by this
> into denying that ontologically mood is a primordial
> kind of Being for Dasein, in which Dasein is disclosed 
> to itself *prior to* all cognition and volition, and 
> *beyond* their range of disclosure.")

And your pointing out the ontological difference helps too, Henry.

The German has the phrase "der Stimmung Herr werden", which can indeed be 
rendered as "mastering its mood", but the vernacular German is not a strong as 
that. "einer Situation Herr werden" can mean simply "cope with a situation" or 
"get on top of a situation". In factical situations there is no other choice 
than for Dasein to try to "get on top" of its mood, but it may, just as well, 
factically fail to cope.

And, ontologically, Dasein can never get on top of its moodedness, since it is 
its essential metaphysical condition: being is always already disclosed to it as 
a whole in some way or other, i.e. Dasein is always already thrown/cast into the 
world.

Michael
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