File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0311, message 157


From: "Anthony Crifasi" <crifasi-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: Iraq Body Count
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2003 19:40:10 +0000


John Foster wrote:

>Heidegger, page 325, Being and Time:
>
>"Anticipatory resoluteness understands Dasein in its own essential 
>Being-guilty.
>This understanding means that in existing one takes over Being-guilty; it 
>means
>being the thrown basis of nullity."
>
>interpreted:
>
>"Anticipatory resoluteness understands itself [the US/UK Dasein as 'being
>there'] in its own essential Being-guilty.

Undergraduate level ontic/ontological conflation #1.

>This understanding means that in
>existing the US/UK takes over Being-guilty; it means being the thrown basis 
>of
>nullity [in its war plans]."

Undergraduate level ontic/ontological conflation #2.

>Roughly contextualized apon the world machine, which is currently devouring 
>the
>US/UK presence in Iraq, must remain until it is clear that the 
>'being-guilty' is
>taken over;

Undergraduate level ontic/ontological conflation #3.

>that existing in Iraq the coalition be resolute and carry out it's
>task. However there is a problem being encountered which makes it very 
>difficult
>to remain in Iraq, which is the occurance of about 30 attacks against the
>coalition each day. If the war in Iraq was a just war, there would be
>'resoluteness' and the keeping of UN Resolutions.

Undergraduage level ontic/ontological conflation #4.

>The US/UK therefore is not
>morally prepared to fulfill it's commitments, and is planning a retreat in 
>June,
>leaving the country in a situation of civil war, of great suffering.
>
>I think this is what some believe, that the purpose of the US/UK coalition 
>is to
>'correct' an injustice, but now it is reported that the total number of
>casualities is between 7000 and 9000 civilians,

That new report to which you refer defines "casualities" as the number of 
U.S. troops killed, WOUNDED OR EVACUATED DUE TO INJURY OR ILLNESS, not 
civilian deaths. High school level ontic error #1.

>not counting hundreds of
>coalition casualities. That was the factor which the coalition did not
>anticipate in it's preliminary resoluteness.

Undergraduate level ontic/ontological conflation #5.

>Thus if the war plan [operation Iraqi Freedom] is unsuccessful, the US/UK
>presence is 'inauthenticated' deliberately becauses of a lack of 
>resolution, for
>what ever reason.

Undergraduate leve ontic/ontological conflation #6.

0/7 points.

Grade: F

Anthony Crifasi

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