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 _________________________________________________________________ Need more e-mail storage? Get 10MB with Hotmail Extra Storage. http://join.msn.com/?PAGE=features/es --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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