Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 21:48:11 +0100 From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl> Subject: RE: Heidegger's Philosophy of Time dear Tudor Georgescu, on Sun, 2 Sep 2001 10:12:51 you wrote: >Anyone easily notices that we travel a circle. Common understanding >pretends that this circle be avoided. - Origin of the work of art hmm, in my (dutch) copy this sentence read as: "Common understanding demands that this circle, as a violation of logic, be avoided." [besides H. starts his essay from within the circle (of work & art), but at the end he imho breaks out - Art is the shock of truth (aletheia, Lichtung) that, by founding/opening a new beginning, happens in the work; and Lichtung cannot be properly thought and understood if it is placed in a closed circle - Lichtung shatters the circle !] >The "circle" characteristic to understanding belongs to structure of >meaning. - Being and Time, parapgraph 32 > >This is the "hermeneutical circle". Some formalized it as the paradox of >induction, anyway, please notice me if anyone gets out of it! i don't question the merits of the "hermeneutical circle" in the fields of the human sciences (Gadamer c.s.), be we are talking physics here (viz. time and space) and i was only questioning the usefulness of Iordanescu's circular definitions in this field of the natural sciences on Mon, 3 Sep 2001 10:48:35 you wrote: >Yes, they make sense: > s=D(P(s))=s > t=P(D(t))=t > >The propositions are, as "God exists", mere tautologies. oh yes, tautologies make sense, but only as tautologies, and that's all - again, they lead us not any further >God is both potential and dynamics. God is both the potential and the >dynamics. well, that was my point in the first place; you are reducing physics to theology, you reduce space and time to God (i.e. a common trap in metaphysical idealism); but ok that's fine with me as long as you don't call it physics (or philosophy) >The potential we call Father, dynamics Son and becoming Holy Spirit. now you really begin to sound like a priest, but what kind of priest are you anyway, a self-proclaimed one ? yours, jan --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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