File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0303, message 171


From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Re: Being and Time-section one
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 10:37:02 -0800



Subject: RE: Being and Time-section one


> Might we conflate being with consciousness?


I don't believe so, but why not?

Well there are other modes of being besides presence or
awareness. These being 'retention' and 'protention'.


If consciousness is being, there would be no 'anticipation'
and how could 'memories' be recovered? Consciousness is
solely a phenomenon of living things, specifically zoon
<animals> and may be plants.

A young child does conflate consciousness with Being. No
doubt, but once there is 'symbolic' thought and reflection
on causes, inferential wisdom, then it is likely that
consciousness cannot exhaust the limits of being.

john




The to be, in as far as you see, makes seeing possible, by
providing the
self-showing of beings. But, you can yourself realize that
there are vast
areas which one never sees, because the to be still hides
them from us.

Gigantomachia peri tes ousias!

Tudor Georgescu

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

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