File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0306, message 65


Subject: RE: the death of god for kids
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 16:37:52 +0200
From: "Bakker, R.B.M. de" <R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl>


Or: what is Gelassenheit, if there are no Messkirchers
unknowingly needing it?

--

A self-correction: Heidegger *did* say in the adress
Gelassenheit, that their world of tv, radio and magazines is
not a world. If one responds: but a tv is also a being, and
the Internet is also a world, then don't worry and be happy.

rene








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Van: Bakker, R.B.M. de 
Verzonden: dinsdag 17 juni 2003 14:24
Aan: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Onderwerp: RE: the death of god for kids


If all what I wrote on the death of god, that is the end of metaphysics, or
metaphysics as nihilism, is made into a philosophical item, held separated
from concrete parents and children, then we are at philosophical fagottism. 
(fatal disease, apparently)


Anthony's ontological and Jud's ontic: just 2 ways how you get stuck, although
with more chances to be 'happy' and rich and all that.

No, it is certainly not the 'moral depravity' of the sixties, that makes these kids
into what they are now. Very intelligently, causes and effects will be confounded
forever. 

But first comes the death of God, and only in that region the father and the child
and the mother become what they are. 

Dost., as a journalist, wrote on atheism, the end of the family etc. on account
of the scientific excusing of guilt in juridical matters   - Iwan Karamazov: 
I'm not a Bernard!  - , on account of a mother that threw her baby out of the 
window in a Moscow flat, and so on.


The problem is: nobody has an idea of what metaphysics is, and everybody is talking
about it. Talking? Criticizing. But they are nobody because of this same metaphysics.

I've been reading 30 pages Kant with students every week from 8-11 during a whole year,
now they want Heidegger, but I don't think that's wise. They've begun to realize that
'transcendental unity of the apperception' is something quite mysterious, that, without
more light in it, talk of 'subjectivity' is pointless, and Heidegger's Eroerterung
('determination of its place, region') of it still more out of sight.

Eminem is already too difficult..

 
rr..


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