Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 16:44:48 +0100
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)
Subject: Re: Heidegger on Hellenistic philosophy?


Cologne 22-Dec-2003

Jan Straathof schrieb Mon, 22 Dec 2003 03:07:16 +0100:

> Michael wrote:
>
> >I don't recall Heidegger saying much about the Stoics, Epicureans, etc.
>
> Michael, I have always sensed some kind of family resemblance between (late)
> Stoic ethics and Heidegger's habitus Gelassenheit. When Heidegger speaks about
> "sich einlassen - Gelassensein - sich lichten - Vergegnis - Verhaltenheit -
> in die Naehe - verweilen" , i always hear that sobering voice of Epicure, the
> gardener.

Jan,
Yes, Heidegger does in fact comment on _lathae biosas_ in the Parmenides lectures,
but only to eludidate what Verborgenheit/hiddenness means (cf. GA54:35, 40).

In English we can say, "While away the time."

>
>
> And also in these Stoic's notions as _diaphora_ [that what lies as in-between-
> difference] and _oikeiosis_  [that what is granted as belonging to
> your-own-self]
> i sense the Buddhist way of detachment toward _sunyata_ [openness, freedom].
> Isn't one of the most pregnant onto-architectonical questions of our days:
> "Can we build freedom ? " ?

That's something that only politicians and states(wo)men can do, and it is a hard,
messy business.

I like the word _oikeiosis_. It resonates with Ereignis as propriation and also
with Wohnen, i.e. living in that space which one has adopted as one's own.

It is no surprise, and perhaps even comforting, that there are resonances of
thoughts throughout history.

>
> yours,
> Jan
>
> - a tempest makes the flames go wild -
>

Thanks,
Michael
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