From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl>
Subject: RE: heidegger-AT-lists  Shall we Dance?
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2002 17:16:13 +0100


> Trees are, but they do not exist. Horses are, but they do not exist.
> Angels are, but they do not exist. God is, but he does not exist.
>
> NB2 for dummies: Heidegger is not stating that God is.

"'God is'; i.e. _really existent_." Introduction in Metaphysics
paragraph 32, Heidegger's underline.

When Heidegger thinks "God does not exist", he thinks of ek-sistence,
i.e. existing outside itself. But, God is the Whole; therefore, He
cannot exist outside Himself.

Men are pretty silly when they (correctly) attribute free will to
themselves, but not to (the) existence (which they are made of).

To be is to become, to exist.

Jethro, Priest of On





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