From: "John Foster" <borealis-AT-mercuryspeed.com>
Subject: Re: Heidegger on Hellenistic philosophy?
Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2003 23:23:47 -0800



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From: "michaelP" <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>
To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu>
Sent: Sunday, December 21, 2003 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: Heidegger on Hellenistic philosophy?


> on 22/12/03 2:07 am, Jan Straathof at janstr-AT-chan.nl wrote:
>
> > And also in these Stoic's notions as _diaphora_ [that what lies as
in-between-
> > difference]
>
> Jan, is not this dia-phorein present in Heraclitus (he says something to
the
> effect that difference is both different and the same; Heidegger must have
> charged by this Heraclitean difference towads the sparking of the
> ontological difference which I still and increasingly feel is the very
> lynchpin of Heidegger's thinking (of being, which is
> difference-qua-difference). This difference of all differences can be
> occulted, effaced, erased, by only the enjoyment of the difference itself,
> and thus the difference can not be got around although it can be
ignored...
>
> long live the tempest at the heart of peace
>
> regards
>
> michaelP (and merry stuff to you, Jan)

Yes he discusses this. A stream is always different but the same. I suspect
what we are searching for here is called 'similarity'. An interesting term
because things which are similar are both different and the same, or
identical and different.

Thus most things are actually - if not in reality - 'unities' possessing
some similarities and some differences. It is only a matter of scale. Having
discovered 'dark energy' recently, I suspect that it's power is to 'unfold'
the manifold in the evolving universe which has been dated to be about 13.7
billion years old, plus or minus a 100,000 years. Anyway we have lots of
time ahead since the universe is still expanding rapidly, and the dark
energy is very strong, opposing gravitational acceleration, etc. And we can
make gasoline out of excrement, even lawn clippings.

Viva La Differance (with accent)

chao

JohnF




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