Subject: RE: Fw: "metaphysical and not phenomenology"?
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 21:58:28 +0200


> which immediately invalidates it as circular,

Heidegger showed in his Origin of the Work of Art that circularity is
not necessarily vicious, more than that, it is unavoidable. I wonder if
you are aware that postulating the fallaciousness of circularity is
circular, for a postulate is not the ground of thinking, but an artifice
inside thinking, which requires some sort of grounding if it does not
float (fall?) freely in emptiness. At least Heidegger admitted the
circularity of describing the to be while being, which is unavoidable.
This makes me say each every philosophy is circular in itself, even if
it does not admit this. That's why for convincing for example a Marxist
of the reality of idea, one has to find a hard fact which contradicts
Marxism. This is extremely difficult, since each believer is trapped in
the circularity of his belief, and he can reject such a fact as
illusory, despite any quantity and quality of the contrary evidence. I
have to agree here there are noble and ignoble circularities, but that's
all we, fallible humans, have engineered: corral fragments veiled in
glass, as in Orwell's 1984. And, when the glass is broken, be it an act
of the thought police or a plain accident, we feel once again miserable
and naked. I guess there is a way out of the labyrinth of knowledge.
This way is called initiation, which is a backwards travel following the
red wire of our destiny.

Become what you are!
(cf. Martin Heidegger's _Being and Time_, § 31, and Friedrich
Nietzsche's subtitle to _Ecce Homo_)
 
Tudor Georgescu (no, not "become *me*", silly! :-) )

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