From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl> Subject: RE: The Glamour of Disgracefulness Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2003 14:03:00 +0100 > A being does not have being; it belongs to being In a sense, I agree: beings do not own the to be, but the to be owns them (we may call this: the rejection of holism). But, it seems a Platonic prejudice lurks above: that the participation of ideas to things is one way. In fact, to speak in Platonic terms, the horseness has a horse, as well as a horse has horseness (a two-way participation, specific to pantheism). So, to say, in this sense, that beings do not have the to be, is nihilism, for you deny that they are (i.e. you say they do not possess the quality of be-ing, of existing), though they are. Gigantomachia peri tes ousias! Tudor Georgescu http://intellect-club.nl.eu.org --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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