From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 06:29:48 EST
Subject: Re: Being and Time-section one



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In a message dated 18/03/2003 05:41:35 GMT Standard Time, bill.hord-AT-hccs.edu 
writes:

> Bill Hord writes:
> 
> What do you all think about the interpretation of dasein as a verbal, that 
> is, as referring to an 'activity', and thus similarly referring to being as 
> an activity?
> 
> This interpretation, which I understand as basically Aristotelian, is 
> consonant with Heidegger's critique of Descartes and Cartesian platonism.
> 
> Whether this is all agreeable or not, I think Heidegger in section 1 is 
> opening a space in which he can approach the question of being. So, all 
> preinterpretations of being, including this one, are in a sense premature.
> 
> Bill Hord

Jud:
Bravo!  Of course it is! Phew! Someone with a bit of sense at last! I've been 
saying this on the list for years. He chose the irregular separable 
intransitive verb Dasein as his ontological Perry Mason deliberately, in 
order to conflate the human existential ACTIVITY of "being there" in the 
world, with the existential FACT of being there in the world. He uses this to 
great success, not only to enable him to introduce the farcical concept of  
the "ontological difference", where no such difference exists, but  in order 
to pull the wool over the eyes of some very clever people, (such as we have 
on this list, ) by then proceeding to employ the word Dasein as a PROPER NAME 
which changes the verbal action word -  to a noun - to the name of a THING 
rather than that of an ACTIVITY. The very word "Being" contains the same 
semantic syncretic schemozzle of "activity" and "presence," which is 
precisely why he/his translators uses the damn word in practically every 
sentence of "Being and Time." Thus the English verb "being"  is cunningly 
transformed into a noun - a noun which has no referent - for "Being" is not 
the NAME of  some entity, but the activity of a human being or something that 
is...a being -  being someone or something.

regards,

Jud Evans



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