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Subject: RE: Gestell/Gewinnst - Truth as opinion
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 11:16:13 +0100
From: "Bakker, R.B.M. de" <R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl>




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[mailto:owner-heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU]Namens michaelP
Verzonden: dinsdag 16 december 2003 7:28
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Onderwerp: Re: Gestell/Gewinnst - Truth as opinion


on 15/12/03 7:10 pm, John Foster at borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com wrote:

> The Platonic exposition relates that opinions contain a varying degree of
> truth, opinions are situated on a continuum between 'non-being' and 'being'
> meaning opinion 'varies' as to it's validity.

John, it has seemed to me that Plato in the Socratic dialogues exemplifies
the necessity of opinion to truth without it in any way being truth, in the
same sense that appearances can show the way to what is not an appearance
but of necessity hides what appears. The very process of Socratic dialectic
brings truth to appearance through the 'conversation', whereupon no
'opinion' is itself the truth, but rather the play of opinions and
appearances (light and shade) bring something to emergence (something
revealed, an image, an ikon, Idea...). Platonically, opinion has no
"validity" whatsoever by itself apart from the simple observation that we
have to start somewhere, we have to be somewhere, we have to say
something... steps along the way, but not the destination (truth).

At least, that's my opinion :-)

regards

mP

   
   Yes Michael. Knowledge is of the stable, and opinion of the unstable.
   So Socrates/Plato lead from opinion  - our domain, insofar we are 
   ourselves unstable amidst unstables - to knowledge ... and back.
   And that's the task of the philosopher. Nothing can be further remote
   from Socr./Plato than to simply claim knowledge. 
  
   rene 
    

  


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