Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1998 11:02:42 -0500
Subject: RE: A minor question


Ed,

Heidegger's term that is being translated as "sheerly" by Stambaugh is
puren.  One might try "purely,"  but that doesn't quite do it.  What
seems to be intended is that the object is being viewed independently of
its relation to a world, independently of how it is situated in a
totality of relations.  Macquarrie and Robinson translate this very well
with saying "that we just look at it."

-Jeff Powell

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	From:	Ed Wall [SMTP:ewall-AT-umich.edu]
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	Subject:	A minor question

	Folks

	   I was reading on page 148 in the Stambaugh translation of
Being and
	Time, and came across this passage "...(omitted to save
bandwidth) .. This
	leveling down of the primordial "as" of circumspect
interpretation to the
	as of the determination of objective presence is the specality
of the
	statement. Only in this way does it gain the possibility of a
pointing
	something out in a way that we sheerly look at it."

	   My question is about "sheerly". What does Heidegger (or
Stambaugh) mean
	by "sheerly?" There seem to be a number of possibilities most of
which
	don't 'feel' right (possibly a bad criterion for me in my
present
	understanding of Heidegger).

	Ed Wall




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