From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl>
Subject: RE: Back from Travels
Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 10:48:51 +0100


> >It is a sin to say you are different from God, for God is
all-present.
>

Maybe this is a wrong answer; at least many regard it as such. It is
however an affirmation that comes without a whole dogmatic apparatus. I
hope it will lead to more questions: if it is so, why I do no perceive
God?

Heidegger would come with the explanation that today vanishes even the
sacred, which is the trace of the lost gods. Lost to me, not to Him. But
this kind of answers cannot be understood if one did not previously ask
for it. In metaphysics there are a lot of things which one cannot
perceive, even if he would have the best magisters. Think of Plato's
view: nothing is learned, all is remembered. Thus, the most important
thing in philosophy is not the theory, but the seeker.

This happens, as Heidegger showed in Introduction to Metaphysics, § 53,
because the knowledge is acquired thelemically, from thelesma=will.
Reaching truth is therefore not a question of reading the right books of
attending the right classes, but a destiny, i.e. one choice following
another.

That's why a film like Adventure in Arabia teaches one (if he is
receptive) more than a thousand books on knowledge theory. For, we have
permanently the choice if we want to become ourselves or just talk about
it.

Of course, you may wonder if the saying that one's own questions are
more important than his answers is a question or an answer...

To be is to become, to exist.

Jethro, Priest of On

 

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu [mailto:owner-
> heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] On Behalf Of Jan Straathof
> Sent: Wednesday, January 23 2002 23:00
> To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
> Subject: RE: Back from Travels
> 
> Hi Tudor,
> 
> thanx for this nice post, you wrote:
> 
> >.... For, one may have all the right answers without having
questions,
> >and another may have all answers wrong, but his questions are true.
> >Who said that willing always to learn means knowledge, while fixed
> >knowing is its opposite?
> 
> oh yes, i quite agree this, but yesterday you told us that:
> 
> >It is a sin to say you are different from God, for God is
all-present.
> 
> but how do you know that "It is a *sin* ..." ? and what is a *sin* ?
> --- i mean, what kind of knowing/knowledge, fixed or otherwise
> (and here more fixed than otherwise, i presume ;-), are you implying
> and expressing in this sentence ?
> 
> yours,
> Jan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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