Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1999 13:51:35 +0000
Subject: Re: Routledge Guidebook to Being and Time (translation)


In message <000201be45f7$ec9e7980$c5d80d81-AT-capurro-1>,
Prof. Dr. Rafael Capurro <capurro-AT-hbi-stuttgart.de> writes
>jim
>what is the meanig of all this with regard to _radical constructivism_?
>(Maturana/Varela, von Foerster etc. etc.)
Hi Rafael,
I honestly don't understand where the "radical constructivism" came
from. It isn't a word i would ever use. Maturana and Varela (that goes
back several months indeed) are authors of the (biological) concept
auto-poiesis, self-producing/organizing. Seen from this concept,
between the 'external world' and 'the subject' -- what have
traditionionally been seen as metaphysically separate or, at least,
separable -- there is such an intrinsic (metaphysical?) 'belongingness'
that we can make no sense of the one in isolation from the other. In
short, we might say that Dasein is an autopoietic structure (as are,
therefore, intentionality, concsiousness, etc.).
-- 
jim


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