Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 13:11:29 +0200
From: Rene de Bakker <rbakker-AT-bs18.bs.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: prognosis vs. forecasting (2)


>Rene, Michael, et. al.,
>
>
>It's no wonder the pretense of "foreknowing," is a significant, 
>sometimes compelling enactment of Dasein, especially in its being for 
>the other:
>
>"Dasein is authentically alongside itself, it is truly existent, 
>whenever it maintains itself in this running ahead.  This running 
>ahead is nothing other than the authentic and singular future of 
>one's own Dasein.  In running ahead Dasein is its future, in such a 
>way that in this being futural it comes back to its past and 
>present." ("Concept of Time," 13)

Allen,

The relation with "Destruktion" has this consequence: If Dasein
(at first: subject) doesn't destruct what is passed down to it,
then what is coming to him, the future, is the past. 

Then Heidegger's time runs like this:

1. The past is the earliest
2. It comes disguided as future
3. At last it arrives in the present: no questions left.

>It's interesting that the perversion of being futural in the pretense 
>of foreknowing usually occurs in the form of assertions to/for the 
>other by seers, prophets, and other practioners of "mantique."  But 
>of course the relationsip between ermeneutique and mantique is very 
>close, semantically, if not etymologically.
>
>  I believe one of the original meanings of ermeneutique was to 'make 
>meaning," to "give significance to," which is precisely what the 
>"Mantiz" ( prophetess)tried to do in her indecipherable ravings. This 
>business of being futural, of Dasein being its future is quite 
>terrifying.  With almost nothing to go on, it's no wonder we turn to 
>future-tellers, meaning-makers of different sorts to help us cope.

But the Greeks freed themselves from these, and then had their
oracle. What if we had an oracle instead of CNN... 
Meanwhile Botho Strauss is the modern Pythia: Wollt ihr den
totalen Krieg?

>Then along comes Heidegger ( among others) whose words, as Rene 
>suggests, reach beyond the seeing/saying of the soothsayers (or 
>perhaps I should have said " seeing through the seeing saying. . . ") 
>to think/say what it means to BE futural. So I think Rene and Michael 
>are both right ( though they probably knew that).

He may be right, I'm not. Heidegger's continuous exposition of the problem 
of correctness and its being unfounded embraces also Nietzsche's notion of 
truth as justice, with which the Eternal Recurrence of the Same is
inevitably linked. 
What a Mr. Nietzsche said 100 years ago, is of no importance. "Nietzsche is
the essential end of metaphysics." In this sense, only Nietzsche (and
Hoelderlin) 
would give the right to go back to a beginning. (GA45). (The beginning is
now, etc.)  

Truth is not founded, means: there is no truth. When there is no truth,
everyone and everything will radicalize their being right, that is the
(necessary) 
belief in their falsity.
Denying this leads inevitably to, no: is already, the contamination by the
against
of the Widerwille. (revisionism, terrorism + their counterpart, etc.)
The monad has no windows. If it isn't blasted, there can be no contact. 

>I'm teaching ( so to speak) " The Concept of Time"  right now.  In 
>retrospect, it seems like a good bit of foreknowing on my part!

Another book I didn't read,

regards,

Rene

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drs. René de Bakker
Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering 
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