Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 05:55:49 +0100
Subject: Re: God and Philosophy
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


Anthony Crifasi wrote:

mP:
>> 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?

Anthony: 
> 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.

mp now:
Anthony, fine, but why don't you just say "atheist" or "American" then? why
the added (redundant?) "dasein" if the adjective is not constitutive of
dasein, given that dasein is precisely not a thing (e.g., to be
adjectivised)?

regards

mP



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