From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: WtP and justice
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 05:03:09 +0000


Rene de Bakker wrote:

>So the question is: do (fundamental-)ontological propositions
>bring to light the ground or essence of the ontical, which would
>equate them with metaphysical propositions, or do they make
>what is more problematic, in the sense of: do they open a
>direction, in which it becomes QUESTIONABLE.
>
>This brings in directly formal indication, as the possibility to
>review situations, without immobilizing them in statements,
>wherein a predicate is said of a subject. The main situation,
>that so is threatened, is Dasein itself. When it is satisfied with
>constructing statements, it does not open up for the possibility,
>it is itself, to see itself in the face as problematic. A radically
>self-forgotten everydayness would still, you could say, presuppose
>Daseinic care, Mitsein and being-alongside, but they would 'be'
>without being noticed, in a situation therefore where Dasein is totally
>verfallen, self-forgotten

and my point was that this is precisely what is going on when we mistake 
mitsein for some kind of ontic with-ness such as the "world community," or 
when a Deep Ecologist confuses Daseinic care with the kind of care which is 
opposed to plundering. This is precisely to fall into an unquestioning 
everyday self-forgottenness, because it is to interpret the ontological as 
the ontic, which is a hallmark of everydayness.

Anthony Crifasi

>Now in this situation, that Heidegger was familiar with from the beginning,
>and which he called (total) ruinancy early 20ies, Prof. Crifasi adresses
>the 1238th Heidegger symposium, speaks his three perfect statements, and
>makes them even better: So there was, is and always will be Dasein.
>But will there BE the (openness of the) Da?



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