File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9810, message 113


From: Michael Staples <mps-AT-nomos.com>
Subject: RE: More Meaning
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 18:20:34 -0400




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> 	If I read heidegger and Merleau-Ponty correctly each of them are
> saying that it is the basic nature of Dasein to form a meaningful world.
> 
Yes, but here is where I am wondering about the difference between
meaningful as in "this holds great meaning for me" which may involve some
sort of befinlichkeit, and meaningful as having an understanding....e.g.,
the meaning of the text is such and such. Does each of these "modes" of
meaning (if they are different modes) indicate some different way of being
in the world? The first mode, involving personal significance, is the one I
am talking about. It is the one that seems to have some sort of effect upon
our sense of well-being. It is perhaps tied to the ontic. The second sense
may be tied more closely to the ontological (do you think?).

> Merleau-Ponty would say that this is the evolutionary nature of
> consciousness reaching its apogee in the human being. I think for
> Heidegger
> this goes beyond angst and the awareness of being-unto-death. Certainly,
> he spell this out somewhere in his metaphysics but I'd much rather let
> one of the big dogs answer that question less this puppy end up chasing
> its tail.
> 
You mean its a "Rough, rough" question?

	Michael S.

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