File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0309, message 97


Subject: RE: Godt, Wahrheit und Amerika
Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2003 15:55:29 +0200
From: "Bakker, R.B.M. de" <R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl>




-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Anthony Crifasi [mailto:crifasi-AT-hotmail.com]
Verzonden: vrijdag 12 september 2003 15:37
Aan: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
Onderwerp: RE: Godt, Wahrheit und Amerika


Rene de Bakker wrote:

>Anthony Crifasi:
>My comment concerning Mother Theresa was intended to convey the
>phenomenological insufficiency of thinking God as a limit of thought. 
>Anyone
>(including atheists) can tend the poor. But not just anyone encounters God
>in tending the poor - communists, for example.
>
>    Oh??? Who decides that? you and your god?

It's not a matter of decision by anyone - it's a matter of the phenomena 
Rene. When one person insists that they are tending to "the least of my 
brothers" by personal charity, while the other insists that they are tending 
to a comrade of the state (and NOT to a child of God) through common 
distribution, as a phenomenologist you can't just ignore their own 
testimonies of their respective encounters and assume that they both reduce 
to the same category. That would be to follow the procedure of the reductive 
modern philosophers - for example, when an Aristotelian insists that they 
know a universal, an empiricist responds, "No you aren't - you just think 
you are, but really that so-called universal is just a conventional name you 
have given to many particular instances that you have grouped together, not 
to anything really common to them all." That is precisely the kind of 
reductionism which, Heidegger says, levels all differences into everyday 
uniformity. This is precisely what you are doing to religious encounters, by 
attempting to reduce encounters with God to essentially the same phenomenon 
as an atheistic encounter with what you call a "non-existent godly." That is 
the procedure of the enlightenment moderns, not phenomenology.

Anthony Crifasi

   I'm not coming through, apparently.
   You want to connect the above written with the name Heidegger and his
   understanding of phenomenology? You think that "testimonies" are
   phenomena, moreover not to be ignored? 

   Five minutes "Letter on humanism" will do.

  rene




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