File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0309, message 126


Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2003 01:06:24 +0200
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)
Subject: Re: Godt, Wahrheit und Amerika


Cologne 15-Sep-2003

michaelP schrieb Sun, 14 Sep 2003 12:53:12 +0100:

> on 14/9/03 11:38 am, Michael Eldred at artefact-AT-t-online.de wrote:
>
> > Belief in a myth means to live in a certain
> > mythically cast historical world. You can only encounter God in the streets of
> > Calcutta if you have faith and you can only share this encounter with the
> > community of the faithful.
>
> Yes, Michael, and this applies too (surely) to those whose mythic casting
> yields to 'seeing' electrons (etc), or worse, 'matter' everywhere, or even
> 'material things' or individual unique (etc) 'spatio-temporal entities'
> only, etc. And, often this mythical casting is itself cast as precisely
> de-mythologising or de-mystification; an interesting if not arresting irony
> whose practitioners will not (can not) admit the irony involved. Of course,
> (as Thurber humourously demonstrated in his inability to see the cells that
> were supposedly obviously present under the microscope lens) this casting is
> grounded in faith too (in the belief of non-belief, in the commitment to
> non-commitment, in the extra-ordinary un-obvious claims made for the
> 'obvious', etc).
>
> To be grounded in the abgrund, in nothing, now, that's a different kettle of
> onions: what should such a abgrund cast when it casts?
>
> regards
>
> michaelP
>

Michael,

I'd differentiate between a mythical or mythological casting and a metaphysical
casting.

The latter, on which modern science is based, can still be engaged with by
philosophical thinking in a dispute over its adequacy to the phenomena. Faith, by
contrast, is immune to thinking altogether. That's not to overlook that as a rule
scientists are unaware of the metaphysical underpinnings of their respective
sciences and may 'believe' in them unquestioningly.

Michael
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