File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2001/heidegger.0110, message 1


Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 11:45:01 +0200
From: Michael Eldred <artefact-AT-t-online.de>
Subject: Re: Self-showing of hiddenness


Cologne 01-Oct-2001

Henk van Tuijl schrieb Sun, 30 Sep 2001 20:23:02 +0200:

> From: "Michael Eldred" <artefact-AT-t-online.de>
>
> > Cologne 30-Sep-2001
>
> > Beyng is at one and the same time the most known and the least known, the
> most
> > hackneyed and well-worn on the one hand, and the most secret and
> mysterious on
> > the other. Beyng is unique; I wouldn't want to say it is "like" anything
> else.
>
> Isn't this the end of philosophy?
>
> Henk
>

Henk,

You could say it's a whole new ball game. The end of philosophy as we know it
from the Greek beginnings, but other, hitherto unheard-of tasks for thinking.
The work of re-casting world, recasting _as_ what beings show up as springing
from beyng**. This involves in part revisiting and re-vising how beings as a
whole showed up in the long metaphysical tradition (been there, done that), and
continue to show up today. We have to be clear about just how strongly the
first beginning still has us in its hold. It's not just a matter of twisting
free from Christianity, which hijacked Plato and Aristotle for over a
millennium, but from the first beginning itself in which being was experienced
and thought as beingness for the sake of beings.

Such re-vising is probably the best preparation for re-casting the thoughts
that run in tandem to a re-casting of world. It also involves in part waiting,
for thoughts encapsulating new insights do not originate from ourselves, but
depend on human openness to and receptiveness for how the world opens.
Heidegger says that the mood of transition is composure.

** exempli gratia: I heard Woody Allen in an interview this morning on the
radio. Asked about how great film-makers and other creative artists are
possible, he said it's due to (verschuldet) "a confluence of factors which is
non-quantifiable". Creativity is thus accounted for in a metaphysical way, i.e.
causally (one thing leads to another). Whereas modern Cartesian scientific
thinking strives to quantify causes as "factors", perhaps in a 'factor
analysis' (cf. e.g. psychology), Woody Allen allows these factors to be
"non-quantifiable". And then it's a "confluence of factors", i.e. the causal
explanation is not 'linear' or 'mono-causal', but complex. This is how
metaphysical thinking works -- like second nature. Today's task, however, is to
make even a start with learning what it  means for beings to "spring from
beyng". Confronted with this task, we initially don't know (as Rene cites)
whether we're going in or out.

Michael
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