From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com> Subject: RE: problem of technology Date: Thu, 24 Apr 2003 14:58:15 +0000 Rene de Bakker wrote: >Are you saying that for Heidegger, whatever "different attitude" towards >technology may be in principle possible, still the bonding power of >technology is so inescapable that technological Enframing must always be >resisted? > >Anthony Crifasi ===================> > So inescapable that it must be ... accepted. Only then freedom > makes a chance. I know, sounds strange. No I understand. But doesn't this freedom consist precisely in having the proper orientation towards technology as described in the last paragraph of the passage I quoted from the Discourse on Thinking? Hence Heidegger goes on in other passages about how technology enframing contains its own saving power, despite its tendency towards exclusivity. > I don't deny that technology has to do with revealing. It has, > because of its origin. (Of itself it's only after the hiding > of revealing.) But only if this origin is not something > historical, but something that still *is* now. (Gewesenheit) > Using 'revealing' as a general concept, to be able to compare > different ways of revealing, such as also Michael Eldred did > with his cows, stands in utmost opposition to what is required >here: > the thinking together of what belongs together. (identity & >difference) > To say the most innocent: comparing is metaphysical. Comparing DIFFERENCES is metaphysical, since differences imply different things (something "had" by one thing but "lacked" by another thing). But Heidegger still says that we can have a DIFFERENT without a DIFFERENCE. So if you limit "comparing" to the traditional metaphysical sense, then yes, for Heidegger comparing is necessarily metaphysical. But just as we can have a different without a difference, we can also have a comparing without two comparable things. Anthony Crifasi _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 helps eliminate e-mail viruses. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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