File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9808, message 92


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.



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