Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 11:35:16 -0400 (EDT) From: TMB <tblan-AT-telerama.lm.com> Subject: Re: Mind & Body, German On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Michael Eldred wrote: > > Allow me to step into this stream of _rhaemata_. Hahah. Without even knowing what that means, I had diarrhea last night. Is it related? ;) > > Tom, why don't you shut up for half an hour and go buy a German dictionary? > You are a completely aufmerksamkeit-suechtiger Nervensaeger. And without understanding this, either, I may actually be able to say: "yes, it seems so, whatever it is, but: *why* am I completely aufmerksamkeit-suechtiger Nervensaeger?" Perhaps our cognitive powers can't reach that far, but I doubt it... :-) > Look up the preceding as your first exercise. > Remember that "ae" = "a" Umlaut = "a" with two dots on it. > The same holds for "oe" and "ue". > > And yes, it's like pushing shit up hill trying to understand Heidegger > (and Kant, Hegel, Fichte, Schelling, Nietzsche...) without some working > knowledge of German -- at least parallel reading in English and German. > Ditto mutatis mutandis for Plato/Aristotle and Greek. Reading in > foreign languages is part of the tools of the trade. I'm sure you are right. It is like that for *other* reasons as well, of course. > ;))> Thanks for the very human response. Tom --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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