Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2001 00:20:11 +0100 From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl> Subject: Re: bibliographical trivia dear Paul, the issues you raise here are quite interesting, and made me think back to the question Michael Staples asked more than a year ago about the trinity: Language - Thought - Action (and its related notions as: non-language, demi-language; non-thought, demi-thought; in/non-action, demi-action etc.) yes indeed, the relevance of this trinity-complex to the understanding of Heidegger's "Gelassenheit" (but also Wittgenstein's "Verhexung" PU:109) is to the point and paramount a practical question that arises now is: can we reclaim (regain) the middle verb tense ? and, if so, how ? --- and would this then be a learning proces ? and if so, ought it then be conceive primary as an individual learning proces or more as a form of social learning ? (i guess that learning ancient Greek or Sanskrit isn't enough or even necessary here) how would it be done to show someone the meaning of the middle verb tense: we need a good example here to think this through .... yours, Jan --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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