File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0306, message 94


Subject: RE: possible misunderstanding
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 16:29:21 +0200
From: "Bakker, R.B.M. de" <R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl>




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Van: Bakker, R.B.M. de 
Verzonden: maandag 23 juni 2003 13:23
Aan: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Onderwerp: RE: possible misunderstanding


A possibility that might very well 'exist'




Rene:
Sorry. Happiness, LIKE victories, can be despicable.
Meanwhile, when you want to talk about the aims of mankind, you've got
to have an idea of what man is. But you "faggotly" are forgetting that all
the time, because of your ontological angst to commit..


   my fuzzy formulating could lead here to a nasty misunderstanding.
   i just wanted to say that to humans 'ontological commitment' (Quine) is
   inevitable.
   In "What is metaphysics" H exposes, what belongs to a metaphysical question:
   1. it regards beings-as-a-whole
   2. the questioner himself is put into question. (questioning belongs to the
      way of being of man: to Dasein.

Even escaping from, denying 'being', is a way of being.



 Nietzsche is more consequently:    corr.: is more consequent, prob. 'consistent'
 is better:

the end of God is the end of man.  And of his happiness.
Happiness as a pseudo-religious end is faggottish nihilism, uncomparingly
worse than all religion so far.

    no corrections needed here.


  Juenger suspects that the first stirring of science can be traced back
to the monk orders. He considers the invention of the mechanical clock  
- according to legend its inventor is the pope Sylvester II, who is surrounded
by a magical aura -  a crucial moment. He sees a line from here to Faust's cabinet.
At last the 19th century professors, to whom, besides the Buckle's and Bernard's
also belong Marx and Nietzsche, have procured the definitive preparation of
science as it is now in our plundering age. (earth as provider - Goethe Faust 2)

Faggot history, however, is the history that  -o sancta simplicitas - culminates in
... faggots. (variant of the origin of species)   ---   (all Hegel)


Something else: i heard that in hospitals terminal patients are colocated into a 12-step
traject  - a sort of roadmap to .... 'Yes sir, you're now in phase 9, a little patience
and it will all be over nicely...'

So I counter Jud's accusation of Heideggerian morbidity with this merry horror of not being
capable of dying anymore. That is: not being capable of ... living anymore. Just functioning,
as long as one is usable, will be the highest reachable. You might not agree, but that's how
Heidegger thought.


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