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From: "Bob Guevara" <guevara-AT-directvinternet.com>
Subject: RE: Help Wanted on Being
Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:28:35 -0800


Hi Michael,

The one question I have concerns your use of "mind's eye" and "sense
perception." Doesn't H make it clear that his investigation isn't
_psychological_?

Bob


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> Cologne 11-Feb-2003
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> Niala Brown schrieb Sun, 9 Feb 2003 15:51:58 -0500:
> 
> >  I am asking for help understanding some stuff: Did Heidegger ever
> > give a definition of being? What was his last word on it?I recall
> > somewhere something like "being is the giving that withdraws, conceals
> > itself in the act of giving". I also know that Heidegger was really
> > keen on the big role Nothingness plays in Being. Yet I'm afraid I am
> > confused, not really sure what he said.Can someone enlighten me as to
> > what exactly Heidegger wound up thinking about Being? I mean, it was
> > the BIG aim of his projects and I feel kind of silly not knowing what
> > he discovered.
> 
> The first and last word which Heidegger said on being was "Anwesen"
> (presence) or, to be more precise, "staendiges Anwesen" (presence
> standing in defined limits perceived by human understanding).
> 
> Where does Heidegger get this first and last word on being from? From
> the ancient Greeks, especially Aristotle. Heidegger discovers presence
> as the meaning of being _implicitly_ underlying and guiding all Greek
> thinking on being and beings.
> 
> In _Sein und Zeit_ the kind of being which human being is is termed
> Dasein. In earlier lectures in the twenties, however, the term Dasein
> applies to all kinds of beings. Dasein is often translated into English
> as "there-being" or "being there", but this is nonsense. Nor does Dasein
> mean "being here".
> 
> Something is Da means it is present. Dasein is the dimension of
> presence. Presence itself refers to time. Presence in the broad sense
> refers also to absence -- including to 'no longer' and 'not yet'. Being
> is therefore the open dimension of presence and absence within which all
> that is present and absent can be for human being, which is open to this
> open dimension of time-space.
> 
> In Heidegger's thinking, ontology means investigating the modes of
> presence of all that is present.
> 
> Something _is_ when it presents itself either to immediate sense
> perception (e.g. I see a tree) or when it is imagined (I dream of a
> tree), or when its absence shows itself (e.g. the tree has been cut down
> -- it is no there no longer, it is missing and I miss it, its absence is
> present), or when we use words to define in detail what it is, to
> investigate it and bring it to light for the 'mind's eye' within its
> determinate, characteristic limits.
> 
> Or, the world can be present as a whole in an undefined way in a mood,
> an uplifting mood or a depressing mood. Moodedness is openness to the
> world as undefined presence, whereas understanding defines presence,
> especially with words. Words themselves bring beings to presence.
> 
> In defining anything, we define ultimately and most simply its mode of
> presence. E.g something living (e.g. a dog) is present in a different
> mode from something inanimate (e.g. a stone). Movement itself comprises
> various modes of presence. Some things can be present as moving beings,
> other beings are present outside the dimension of movement altogether
> (e.g. geometrical figures such as a triangle). Some things present
> themselves as being good-for... Etc. In practical everyday life, beings
> present themselves mostly as being good-for... (including being
> no-good-for, i.e. useless).
> 
> Something which can move (e.g. a tree can grow, a kind of movement) can
> also rest (e.g. a tree can stop growing), but something which cannot
> move (e.g. a triangle or the number 10) also cannot rest.
> 
> Michael
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