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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 16:29:21 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: Language, music


At 10:22 PM +0100 11/30/01, Michael Eldred wrote:
>Cologne 30-Nov-2001
>
>
>Howdy Allen,
>You're right. Nothing is without Stimmung. Look at your watch for 273
>seconds and there you have Cage's 4"33'. How's your mood?
>
>Yes, form is another word for Bestimmung, definition, determination.
>
>The contrast with Genesis shows just how much it is removed, or already
>progressed, from pure beginning in pure thinking. Once one is past "In
>the beginning..."
>the defining already sets it. "The Earth", "Tohu Vavohu"*, "darkness"
>are already definite. Hegel doesn't even say, "In the beginning...", but
>without any mediation (although talking for long pages beforehand about
>"Where does the
>beginning of science have to be made?") begins, "Being, pure being, --
>without any further definition." Scarcely a toehold.
>
>Could Heidegger (H1, H2 or H369) have begun, "Clearing, pure clearing,
>-- without any further definition."? In thinking abstractly thinking
>"Clearing, pure clearing" there we have it already: human being in pure
>ratio, _logos_.
>Stimmung? Angst. Toehold?


Michael,

Okay let's try another version of the same idea:

In the beginning was the Word. . .

or in Heidegger's version:

( I freely adapt from a number of sources here, but sources there 
are,for every word)

In the beginning were Aanaximander, Parmenides, and Heraclitus.  They 
are primordial thinkers, because they think the beginning.  That is 
they think the beginning from out of the primordial formlessness 
(incipient form) of the vast unthought ( Tohu Vavohu).  But this 
beginning is not dependent on  the favor of these thinkers.  Rather 
these thinkers are begun by the beginning, "in-cepted," 
[An-gefangenen) by the in-ception (An-fang); they are taken up by it 
and are gathered into it ( Legein).  And so they were moved to 
co-respond with the being-gathered and spoke the first Word: 
"A-letheia"

Now of course Hegel thought little of their few words.  Philosophy 
can only be said, let alone begun,in many words ( That's because he 
insists on beginning "without mediation," and so for him Philosophy 
begins with the first book of the Metaphysics.  Everything before is 
simply "pre-Aristotelian."  But as Heidegger says of Hegel:

"The problematical circumstance that a modern thinker needs a book of 
400 or more pages in order to express something of what he has to say 
is an unerring sign that modern thinking stands outside the realm of 
primordial thinking." (p8, in English of Parmenides).

A man of few words, our Heidegger.


Allen
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