From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: God and Philosophy
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 17:54:42 +0000


Allen Scult wrote:

>>Perhaps Heidegger's rules are indicative
>>of what Dasein can be.
>>
>>Dasein can find God in its understanding
>>of itself. It can be a creative being,
>>it can be the ground of all grounds, etc.
>>To say it bluntly, fundamental ontology
>>_is_ theology.
>
>Henk,
>
>Well put.  I don't think the part played by "theology" in Heidegger's early 
>ontology
>can be over-estimated.  The impulse to think God  carries with it a 
>romantic/creative
>fervor which is powerfully present (Pardon the expression!) in the 
>Presocratics, and is
>recovered and re-inscribed by the German romantics, Hoelderlin and perhaps 
>most " philosophically" by Schlegel:
>
>"Ideas are infinite, independent, unceasingly moving in themselves, godlike 
>thoughts." (Ideas, 10)

The problem is that I don't see how this is phenomenologically distinct from 
atheist Dasein. An atheist Dasein can also understand itself as as creative 
being, the ground of all grounds, etc. So this does not seem enough for a 
phenomenological ground for God.

Anthony Crifasi

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