Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 09:35:13 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: Value


At 12:06 PM +0200 10/10/01, Michael Eldred wrote:
>Cologne 10-Oct-2001
>
>SuZ is partly also an answer to value-philosophy. The Um-zu 
>(good-for...). Here
>the phenomena themselves show what value is. Heidegger avoids the 
>word 'value' for
>good reason, to lessen the likelihood of misunderstanding. This is 
>not Nietzsche's
>understanding of value, however, which is a projection of the 
>subject, but rather,
>the value of beings-in-the-world is how they show up for Dasein. Beings in the
>world _are_ 'for the sake of' (umwillen) Dasein's existing. 
>Nietzsche understands
>value as subjective projection; therefore the passage you cite. Value(-being)
>cannot be brought back to an underlying subject, however, but is a 
>granting of how
>beings open up to and for Dasein.

Michael,

And isn't the prime example Dasein itself, being for the sake of 
others, that is for the sake of Dasein in others?  And even more 
particularly for the sake of the other's freedom?

I wonder if we might see freedom as the "point" towards which 
Heidegger's phenomenology of the relation between self and other 
points us.  In some of the most inter-personally alive passages of 
SuZ, in his thinking through of care, Mitdasein etc, Heidegger seems 
to wind up at the striking realization that each of us can only be 
freed by the way care is exercised towards us-- the way we are cared 
for.  Here's the passage I have in mind:

Diese eigentliche Verbundenheit ermoeglicht erst die rechte 
Sachlichkeit, die den Anderen in seiner Freiheit fuer ihn selbst 
freigibt.#26, bottom of p. 122 in the German.

The authentic alliance first makes possible the proper kind of 
objectivity which frees the other for himself in his freedom.

Each of us can only be freed in his own freedom.  This freeing of 
Dasein in its freedom can only take place for Dasein in its 
being-with and so comes to Dasein through the authentic alliance--the 
authenticating alliance--of care, wherein Dasein is treated with the 
"objectivity" which permits Dasein to be the very Dasein it is.  Our 
freedom is a gift we can only give to one another.  Is that an 
important sense in which Dasein is FOR the other?


Allen




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