Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1998 08:03:00 -0700 From: Mike Staples <mstaples-AT-argusqa.com> Subject: Re: Yes-Sir, Boss. Michael Eldred wrote: > Cologne, 20 August 1998 > > Defective being-in-the-world does not have anything to do with not > being in a > standard way, with not fulfilling a norm, with being abnormal, but can > only mean > something like “making away from the open”. The privilege and pain of > standing > in the open of the truth of beyng is one way of characterizing > existence, > being-in-the-world. But standing admits also of various degrees of > declination, > right down to being completely unable to stand the standing-out in the > open, > thus keeping a world open. I cannot help but smile as I read your posting, Michael. How clear you are, and how simple it all seems. I am reminded again of the little math tutoring I am giving my son. I watched yesterday as he became panic-stricken and filled with frustration, running up against a set of problems he could not solve. In fact, he had all the tools to solve these problems. There was only a small burb in his thinking. "Don't Panic!" I said. Let's just sit with this problem for a while, and maybe play with how it looks, re-write it a bit here and a bit there, and wait notice what images come up for us. Indeed, the tools surfaced and the answer became clear. "You just have to do more problems," I told him. There is something to be said for practice. And I was reminded of that wonderful statement of Heidegger's about "Practice in Going". Michael S. --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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