From: "Henk van Tuijl" <hvtuijl-AT-xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: Heidegger -- distance
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 23:55:30 +0200


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Subject: Re: Heidegger -- distance


>
> Hi Henk,and Judd,
>
> You(Henk)seem to have soured on the old man a bit!

<g>

> I think the formal
> indication is most significantly a teaching device.  The sharp students
learn
> to "read off it" something like the teacher read off the phenomenon in the
> first place to say the indication the way he did.

It is certainly an excellent teaching
device, a phenomenological method and
a way of life - and clearly related to
authenticity.

> > There is often
> > an insistent hermeneutical urging for the other to: 'Read the text more
> > closely,
> > ' or to: 'Forget your own preconceptions and prejudices for a change,
and
> > accept what the writer is saying as a way into his mind and
philosophical
> > message.'
>
> Or, see your own preconception and prejeudices for the what they are, as
if for
> the first time, by taking on the otherness of what the other is saying.
This
> is Gadamer, rather than Heidegger, of course.

It is Gadamer! Heidegger does not warn
us against everyday prejudices. It is
impossible to live without them. He is
more averse to systemic constraints -
as he demonstrates in his discussion
of Husserl's distinction between
generalizing and formalizing.

Henk



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