Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 00:56:54 +0100
From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl>
Subject: RE: Dasein


Hi Tommy, you wrote:

>Well, I have nothing against Buddhism or the reduction of suffering
>or ignorance. But you haven't answered my question as to how you are
>able to use the definitive article "the" with relation to
>"perspective". This is as pertinent a question to a Buddhist as to an
>Heideggerian, I think.

i am able to use the definitive article "the", because here i am free to
choose what i think and write, it was a personal statement (i wrote:
"for me ...."), it is reflecting my current awareness/conception of the
world picture, and sure, anything else may have been different at
different times and places.

----- but

allow me here to quote from Heidegger's conversation with a Japanese
in his "Unterwegs zur Sprache" [p. 119], it's quite remarkable btw. that
Heidegger - the westerner- calls himself a "Fragenden" (i.e. a humble
and ignorant questioner); and this imho is Heidegger's stance to the east !!

         "J  Ermuntert durch Ihren Hinweis, das Wort sei Wink und
               nicht Zeichen im Sinne der blossen Bezeichnung.

          F  Winke brauchen den weitesten Schwingungsbereich . . .

          J   worin die Sterblichen nur langsam hin- und herziehen."

same wishes,
Jan




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