Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1998 16:09:20 -0400
From: ay581-AT-yfn.ysu.edu (Robert V. Scheetz)
Subject: identity & difference





>...I think H. sees Nietzsche on the top of the hill,
>looking on both sides (the metaphysics of subjectivity and the >_groundless_
>process of _Being_). .. So the
>question is no to _declass_ the other camp but take away the >kind of
>certainty (Descartes' fundamentum inconcussum) that would be >instead of a
>ground-god.... 


Rafael,

heretofore, i had thought,  the palm for slaying metaphysics, 
the logical corollary of his demolition of  cartesian realism, 
had  been kant's.  And that his method, the method of criticism, 
testing the internal coherence of a set of propositions,
involved no presupposition of subjectivity; but
in disproving certainty, ground, was left with
it as a negative remainder, not a fundamentum.
So, from the beginning it's perplexed me to hear
neitzsche, the bertran, accredited the
feats of the cour de leon. And there seems
almost a perversity on the part
of the hegel/heid caste to construe its opposite
untouchables.
?

> _Gibt es auf Erden ein Mass?_ is there a measure on earth?
>(Hoelderlin), _es giebt keines_, no, there is not. 
>Is there a measure on
>heaven? what does it mean _to take measure_? How is it possible >_to take_
>measure? is this measure, as for modernity, _the objectivity of >the object_?
>Does it enable us to make (take) a difference for instance >between the
>_normal_ and the _mad_? ... What
>does it mean _to see_ (vision, visionary)? what is the _measure_ >ob _seeing_
>and _hearing_ and...?

who is it that darkeneth counsel
by words without knowledge?...
where were you when i laid the foundations...
who hath taken the measures thereof
or stretched the line upon it?
whereupon are the foundations fastened
or ...the cornerstone...?
when the morning stars sang together,...?

i will lay mine hand upon my mouth

bob


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