From: GEVANS613-AT-aol.com
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 07:10:13 EDT
Subject: Re: Heidegger on Kant for Rene



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In a message dated 09/04/2003 16:52:12 GMT Daylight Time, 
R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl writes:


Hi Rene,

I missed out answering this question, so I've come back to it.

> Would you call death real or existent, and but not the possibility to die 
> that every Dasein carries with it as long as it is Dasein?
> 
> Jud: 

I'm always very cautious when I employ the word "real."  The word can be used 
as an intensifier to suggest a thing is genuine,
> 
> "It's a "real" seventeenth century commode."  But most of the time I would 
> use it to verify  some action or state of an entity occurring in fact or 
> actuality -  that the entity undergoing that existential modality or state 
> has a verified existence; not illusory, reified or imagined.

> If I said:  "Heidegger is really dead." I would be stating that in my 
> opinion Heidegger is no longer a living entity, but the body of Heidegger  
> now  exists in that lifeless modality or state of death which we attribute 
> to a human corpse that we call  "dead." I would be asseverating that his 
> body is in a lifeless state of existing, which we call  being "dead."   
> Death itself of course does not exist, for "death" is no more that a state, 
> and "states" don't exist - only the entities that are or exist  in those 
> states exist
> There is no possibility whatsoever that any  "dasein" will ever die, simply 
because no "dasein" has ever lived.  That which has never existed can never 
not exist.  "Dasein" is a make-believe or pretend persona or multi-persona in 
Heidegger's story book for thinkers - a fanciful symbolic representation of 
the state of existing here [being there] on earth. One can immediately see 
that there is no state of existing [or being,] for existing, or being, 
ALREADY IS A STATE and one cannot have a state of a state. One can only exist 
- one cannot exist in the state of existing, whether that existing is 
manifested on earth, or Mars or anywhere else in the Solar system.
   Like the "is" question, those that cannot grasp this most basic 
ontological fact haven't got a snowball in hell's chance of      
understanding Heidegger's basic and most profound error - a boner that runs 
like a fault-line through all his works and renders them invalid.

"Dancing-there" cannot dance - only the dancer dancing there is dancing.


Cheers,

Jud.

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