Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 11:34:56 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: The misunderstanding statement 2




>  Plato and Aristotle are always taking
>how things are said (_legetai_, "man sagt", "one says") as their 
>starting point
>for talking things through (_dialegesthai_).


Michael,

HOW things are said! Is this the "how" which links for Heidegger 
Aristotle's focus in the  Physics on "das Seiende im Wie seines 
Bewegtseins" ( the being in the how of its being moved) and his focus 
in the Rhetoric on " discovering in the particular case what are the 
available means ( "the possible  how's") of persuasion"?  In the case 
of the latter, the answer of course is the emotions--the moods which 
serve to guide language in its expressedness.

Thus thinking accomplishes its perspective by taking a step back from 
what is "ausgesagt," said out, stated, expressed; and thinking back 
through to the phenomenological how of what is said--  that is, "the 
way," "the path" of  Apophaenesthai on the way to language.

I have some problem with your example of driving a car, but that is a 
slightly different subject I want to get to in another post to follow 
soon.

Thanks,

Allen
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