Date: Fri, 02 May 2003 11:28:02 -0500 From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu> Subject: The Problem of NOT Being Zarathustra One of my best students, a double major in physics and philosophy, just finished giving a wonderful paper on Heidegger and science to a mixed audience(different disciplines) of faculty and students. When he finished, the questions were of the reductionist sort(sometimes found on this list), which demand that he give an accounting of Heidegger's thought in precisely those terms which this aspect of Heidegger's thought is carefully constructed to deconstruct: How do you give it to someone who doesn't get it, indeed who can't get it until they think the overcoming which what you are giving gives them? It struck me that what I may be doing with my most successful students, who indeed do get what Heidegger has to give, is I may be putting them in very much the same situation I find myself in. Even though I'm sure they will be able to do more with it then I have done(assuming there is more to be done, even more than I will do, and definitely more than Heidegger did), there is still something about this situation, of perpetuating my situation, that leaves me. . .uncomfortably situated, to say the least. Best regards, Allen (trying to find his way back to that path marked only by goat turds which leads back UP the mountain)) -- Allen Scult Dept. of Philosophy HOMEPAGE: " Heidegger on Rhetoric and Hermeneutics": Drake University http://www.multimedia2.drake.edu/s/scult/scult.html Des Moines, Iowa 50311 PHONE: 515 271 2869 FAX: 515 271 3826 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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