From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: God and Philosophy
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 21:01:51 +0000


Michael P wrote:

>Anthony, sorry, I cannot see how 'a dasein' can 'be' 'atheist' or
>'non-atheist' (in the same sense that the difference between british or
>american dasein is surely nothing if not utterly irrelevant. Dasein is
>surely (?) something to be, to arrive at, not a category of humankind?

By atheist Dasein, I simply mean an atheistic being-there, not that atheism 
is constitutive of being-there as such (since obviously Dasein can be 
non-atheist too). So yes, atheism is irrelevant to being-there as such, but 
being-atheistic is still one possible way of being-there. Similarly, if I 
say American Dasein, I do not mean that being American is constitutive of 
Dasein as such, but I can say that there is a particularly American way of 
being-there, and that is what I would mean by American Dasein.

Anthony Crifasi

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