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 > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu [mailto:owner- > heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu] On Behalf Of Michael Eldred > Sent: Tuesday, February 11, 2003 1:18 PM > To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu > Subject: Re: Help Wanted on Being > > Cologne 11-Feb-2003 > > 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 > _-_-_-_-_-_-_- artefact text and translation _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- made by art _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ > http://www.webcom.com/artefact/ _-_-_-_-artefact-AT-webcom.com _-_ > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ Dr Michael Eldred -_-_- > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ > > > > > > > --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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