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Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 14:29:30 +0100
From: Rene de Bakker <rene.de.bakker-AT-uba.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Anxious to Plagiarise


At 07:50 25-3-03 EST, Jud Evans wrote:
>In a message dated 25/03/2003 03:08:50 GMT Standard Time,
>crifasi-AT-hotmail.com writes: 
> 
> 
>Subj:Re: Anxious to 
>Date:25/03/2003 03:08:50 GMT Standard Time 
>   crifasi-AT-hotmail.com (Anthony Crifasi) 
>   owner-heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu 
>Reply-to: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu 
>   heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>"That which anxiety is profoundly anxious about is not a definite kind of  
>Being for Dasein or a definite possibility for it. Indeed the threat itself  
>is indefinite, and therefore cannot penetrate threateningly to this or that  
>factically concrete potentiality-for-Being. That which anxiety is anxious  
>about is Being-in-the-world itself. In anxiety what is environmentally  
>ready-to-hand sinks away, and so in general do entities within-the-world.  
>The world can offer nothing more, and neither can teh Dasein-with of
Others.  
>Anxiety thus takes away from Dasein the possibility of understanding
itself,  
>as it falls, in tersm of the world and the way things have been publicly  
>interpreted. Anxiety throws Dasein back upon that which it is anxious about  
>- ITS AUTHENTIC POTENTIALITY-FOR-BEING-IN-THE-WORLD, which as somethign
that  
>understands, projects itself essentially upon possibilities. Therefore,
with  
>that which it is anxious about, ANXIETY DISCLOSES DASEIN AS  
>BEING-POSSIBLE...." (SuZ 187) 
> 
>Jud: 
>The torturously written, pathetic guff above is beginner's level
>psychiatry, which Heidegger no doubt picked up and burglarised from some
>First-Year Psychiatry Course Book. An alcoholic for example will awaken
>next morning after a binge with a general unspecified feeling of angst.
>Manic-depressives act in the same way, combining hypochondriasis. - chronic
>and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments, with a more
>generalised unspecified anxiety, which is not addressed towards any
>particular problem in their lives. Heidegger the cognitive chiseller simply
>dresses up these facts of clinical commonality in philosophical language,
>which Heideggerians now agonise and pontificate over, as if it were some
>significant and profound revelation “uncovered” by the “great man.” 
>
>Much of Heideggerian “philosophy” can be read (in plain language) in
>any student-nurse's: 'Introduction to Psychiatry' handbook 
> 
> 
> 
>It makes you chortle over it all though - never have so many naïfs been
>conned by such an OBVIOUS phony 
> Don't make me laugh!. 
> 
> 
> 
>Cheers, 
> 
>Jud Evans. 


Jud,

Heidegger once told to Walter Schulz, an expert on absolute idealism,
that the death analysis of BT was written for medical students. 
Poor Schulz could not believe it. Did you laugh? Sorry!

The question is, what did Heidegger mean by that? It's a question
for everyone ......


cheers and my respect for your flexibility,

Rene














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