Date: Tue, 08 May 2001 13:11:26 -0500 Subject: Re: Rhetoric At 6:09 PM +0200 5/8/01, Rene de Bakker wrote: >That's a good link, metaph. home position - Novalis' saying. Indeed >Heidegger has then reached a new place - but not itself a metaphysical >position. >That went 'wrong' after BT, when, together with Scheler, he wanted to start >up >a new metaphysics, with an ontic approach of Dasein, which would parallel >Scheler's "The place of man in the kosmos". In Poeggeler's last book he gives >a good historical overview. > >In the same year 1928 was the Marburg lecture "Metaphysical foundations of >logic". >In it is this astonishing phrase: The possibility, that there is Being in >understanding >[Verstehen], requires the factical existence of Dasein, and this >[existence] again >the factical occurrence of nature [Vorhandensein der Natur]." (GA 26, >German p. 199) >A radical reflection on the possibility of a fundamental-ontology can only >begin, when >the fact is acknowledged " ... that a possible totality of being(s) is >already there." >[dass eine moegliche Totalitaet von Seiendem schon da ist] > >Allen, > >Poeggeler, in "Heideggers logische Untersuchungen", gives a note, made by H. >after the 1st Aristotle lecture: "not life, not world, but Being, Dasein." > >I was thinking too of a phrase I remember of the Nietzsche-volumes, where he >says about Aristotle, that he could only come after Plato, after the 'idea', >but that he is more Greek than him. That MUST be physis. > >I'm just thinking out loud: What about the Jews and nature? > >Rene, What first came into my head in response to your question was a line said by Kathryn Hepburn to Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen: "Nature, Mr. Olner is what we were put here to rise above!" I also read recently that Origen had himself castrated, which was disappointing news. But neither really has to do with your question. The Jews have an exclusive-- I would say ruthlessly-- monogomous hermeneutical relation to the Word. Eckhardt learned his lessons from Maimonides well: " All words gain Power from the first Word." That's the beginning and the end of it, "the he and the she of it" ( James Joyce). Some diverting nature poetry in some of the prophetic imagery and Psalms, but then with the Rabbis, it's back to work. 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 PHONE: 515 271 2869 FAX: 515 271 3826 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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