File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2001/heidegger.0103, message 32


Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 12:17:38 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: Modal Flux.


>
>Hello Len:
>  I quite agree with you once you remove the concept of 'time past' and 'time
>future'  time present is left dangling in the air rather without a tholepin
>so to speak. I'd thought of giving 'time' another name like: "modal flux,"
>or "modus statim" (Latin: instant mode)  or some such thing mainly to
>encourage people to try and think about time differently. I know it would be
>a very ambitious project, but until a couple of hundred years ago people
>still believed that the earth was flat.  It is a very difficult thing to
>disabuse people of the idea of the linear chronicity of time, for the
>concept is part of our lives from a very early age, and the whole world is
>governed by clocks and dates and anniversaries and notions of 'past' events
>and planning for the  'future.'   Of course, I am not crazy enough to
>suggest abolishing clocks and timetables and anniversaries and descriptions
>of completed modal fluxations as 'past' occurrences, but rather to coax
>people to consider substituting 'change' for 'time'  in astro-physical
>calculations and philosophical considerations. Nothing would change but our
>apprehension of modal flux as an ever- present continuum, rather than as
>'time' as a sparrow which flutters in at the front door of Beowulf's Great
>Hall, flies over the heads of the revellers below - then exits rapidly from
>the rear.
>
>Cheers!
>
>Jud.
>

Jud,

Not surprisingly, you're back to fluxing your modal again.  It always 
seems to come down to the same thing for you, which is probably why 
you think everyone else is also locked into modal fluxing just as you 
are.

Well it's not about modals or modaling, but about moods.  Moods. 
Moods are the primary dimension of temporality, the way Time 
temporalizes, as least for us.  That's all fluxing your modal is 
really about anyway is the mood your in( or might get to)  And I must 
say, as far as any sort of philosophical understanding is concerned, 
you're in the wrong mood. Have been for a while.

But I'm still cranky, because it's snowing again in Iowa and the snow 
doesn't look good for skiing.  So I'm going to lunch, while waiting 
for Spring to break, or for you to get out of your modal rut.

Allen
-- 
Professor Allen Scult					Dept. of Philosophy
HOMEPAGE: " Heidegger on Rhetoric and Hermeneutics":		Drake 
University
http://www.multimedia2.drake.edu/s/scult/scult.html		Des 
Moines, Iowa 50311
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