Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 16:45:46 -0500 From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu> Subject: Re: phenomenology of religion At 10:56 PM +0200 5/22/01, Henk van Tuijl wrote: >Allen, > >The Heidegger of the first part of GA60 ("Introduction to the >phenomenology of religion") is a theologian - or rather: a pastor. > >In GA60:116:125 Heidegger describes how Paul's letters are no >longer about a doctrine (hae basileia tou theou - Luc. 16:16) but >about a way of life (Rom 1:3; 10:9). > >This way of life is historically determined. In Heidegger's >words: christian religiosity lives [sic!] temporality. > >This life leads to and takes place before God (1Thess. 1:3, 5:9). >The realities of life are "being lived" [sic!] as if not (als ob >nicht - in Greek: hoos mae). > >Heidegger gives no reference for the "hoos mae" - but it will be >clear that this attitude towards "ta onta" is characteristic for >Christian facticity (see also 1Cor. 7:20; 1:26ff.). > >Is this what you are looking for? > Henk, I think so. This seems to match up with what Heidegger identifies as a "non-objectifying thinking and speaking" in the "Addition to the Pointers" at the end of "Phenomenology and Theology": "Poetic thinking is being in the presence of. . and for the god. Presence means: simple willingness that wills nothing, counts on no successful outcome. Being in the presence of. . . :purely letting the god's presence be said. Such saying does not posit and represent anything as standing over against us or as object. There is nothing here that could be placed before a grasping or comprehending representation."(trans. in "Pathmarks") Thus, a speaking-listening which "takes place before God" provides the occasion for a poetic speaking (Dichtung) of a very distinctive sort-- a "religious poetics" which is most exclusive of the scientific-technological thinking and speaking which seeks only proof. Earlier on, Heidegger quotes Aristotle on how the recognition of the "not necessary" of such proving opens up the possibility of saying and appreciating this very distinctive sort of poetic speaking: "It is the mark of not being properly brought up, not to see in relationship to what is necessary to seek proofs and when this is not necessary." (Meta. 1006 a6ff.) I love the idea that the capacity to make this distinction is a matter of good manners, decorum perhaps. Thanks again for your most helpful citings. 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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