File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0301, message 4


Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:43:21 -0800
From: Kenneth Johnson <beeso-AT-pop.charter.net>
Subject: Re: mistranslations



Master Pennemacoor wrote:

I remember, folks, back in those distant times of 2002 I suggested 
that beings like Matter and God were the barely thinkable 
limits/bounds/conditions of/for thinking itself; better they are the 
horizons of thinking, neither to be believed in nor not to be 
believed in. Now when we come to being (or it comes to us), [it] 
being not a being (however inclusive or however profound the 
foundationality), being comes across (or withdraws) as the utterly 
unthinkable horizon of all horizons, without which thinking is 
impossible and impassable. Even less is being to be believed in or 
not believed in; it is the very possibility of belief and non-belief; 
the difference between belief and non-belief; difference...

Being can thus neither be disputed nor asserted, nevermind proved or 
disproved, and all speech about it is bathetic chatter even when such 
speech makes reference to the horizonality it confers. Being comes 
across in meta-phor, in (mis)trans-lation, in inter-pretation... in 
the (be)tweens, the crossings, the abouts: one does not have to speak 
of it at all since the very every possibility of speech and language 
makes silent reference to its silent heart.

What thinkest thou?
===================
I as a meselfed being thinkest, that the above is the clearest image 
so far have i seenest that visaged on the matter of sir being, on the 
being of the matter of being's being being, its compost, etc.

so thankest thee!

Kenneth

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