From: "Allen Scult" <tristamigistus-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Help Wanted on Being
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2003 10:48:51 -0600






>From: rick issan <rick_aei-AT-hotmail.com>
>Reply-To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
>Subject: Re: Help Wanted on Being
>Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 05:41:23 -0500
>
>Being speaks insofar as its saying is always fore.
>
>There is no simple ownership about the present for
>we are together challenged along with what may be.
>
>Rashbam: "If it is nothing of you to know my name,
>I say to you that my name is I will be forever and
>it is possible for me to raise up what I entrust."



Mindful of all this knowing and naming, not
knowing and not naming, knowing and not naming;
I came across a story by Borges called "Everything
and Nothing," which raises another possibility: not knowing,
and naming anyway.  The story begins thus:

"There was no one in him; behind his face (which even through
the bad painitngs of those times resembles no other) and his words, which
were copious, fantastic and stormy, there was only a bit of coldness,
a dream dreamt by no one."

He then goes on to name himself a number of names along with a number
of dreamns/lives, many of them quite successful. ( You see, he's the only 
one who
knows he is no one).  The role that best suits him because it's the way 
people
best seem to"understand" him is the role of poet, and that's the one he 
returns
to at the end.  Then the story concludes thus:


" History adds that before or after dying he found himself in the presence 
of
God and told Him:  "I who have been so manyh men in vain want to be one and 
myself.
The voice of the Lord answered from a whirlwind:  Neither am I anyone; I
have dreamt the world as you dreamt your work, my Shakespeare, and among the 
forms in my dream are you, who like myself are many and no one."

I love Borges, but sometimes I think his depression gets the best of his 
wit; and
so I offer another possibility. Each and every one of us is ein Dasein, one 
particular Dasein.
And with great trepidation,I'm thinking perhaps that includes God as well. 
All the possible names,I should say each possible name, including No Name, 
constitutes one single creation:  One's ownmost possibility  for  being.  
That's all you get.  And that One ( including God's One) is not many, and 
not no one, but the only one.  As Valery
puts it:

"You can only love what you create."

Or Nietzsche,

"Amor Fati"

Happy Valentines Day,

Allen

_________________________________________________________________
MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE*  
http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus



     --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---