From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl>
Subject: RE: Help Wanted
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 09:20:26 +0100


Basically Heidegger sets forth the ontological difference: being (the to be)
is something else than beings (its instances). The first chapter of _Being
and Time_ says that the to be is: the most abstract concept, the most
general concept, the most self-understood, undefinable as proximal gender
and specific difference.

In _What is Metaphysics_ he speaks about the illuminating role of the
Nothing, manifested through anxiety. Authentic anxiety reveals the to be
better than any rational definition, he seems to have believed. Therefore,
he chose not to define, but somehow circle around the question about the
meaning of the to be.

Iordanescu later defined the to be as: total, fundamental and absolute.

Gigantomachia peri tes ousias!

Tudor Georgescu

http://intellect-club.nl.eu.org





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