File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0312, message 85


Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 03:57:43 +0800
Subject: Re: Gestell/Gewinnst - Truth as opinion
From: Malcolm Riddoch <m.riddoch-AT-ecu.edu.au>



On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 02:58  AM, allen scult wrote:

> The only way to fathom the  force of Heidegger's claims (as well as 
> the the
> originary claims of the Greek philosophy he thinks) is to read and try 
> to understand them as
> "made-good."  After all, this is philosophy, not science!

Why not indeed read him this way? And why not read him another way, 
without accepting the possibility of a 'new beginning' based on a 
retrieval of ancient Greek thought or even the phenomenological notion 
of time? Why not read him both ways? Perhaps The only way to fathom the 
force of Heidegger's claims (as well as the the originary claims of the 
phenomenological philosophy he thinks) is to read and try to understand 
them as "made-good." After all, this is philosophy, not science!

> It turns out there were others who said the new beginning of the 
> originary beginning
> in terms very similar to Heidegger's ( Karl Reinhardt, in 1916, 
> announced the second coming of
> Parmenides as "Denker/Dichter whose fundamental concern was the 
> relation between language
> and ontology." (Charles Bambach, Heidegger's Roots, 225).  It wasn't 
> just Heidegger.
> Get with the program, Malcolm. Enjoy the new beginning as the new 
> beginning it is.

A new Greek beginning, or a new neo-Kantian beginning, or a 
transcendence of the romantic nostalgia for truth, or a 
phenomenological breakthrough in the understanding of time. There are 
so many new beginnings to choose from I just didn't know where to 
start, so I chose Husserl.

> " Everything is interpretation"makes the new beginning count even 
> more.  Heidegger's Parmenides
> proves itself by taking us back to the originary words themselves.  
> The past isn't really passed.
> It returns again and again in the "how" of new beginnings.

You're starting to sound like a futurist, and I do like futurism. But 
maybe the new beginning starts and ends with the dissolution of the 
previous beginnings, a dissolution that perdures. Who knows? Not me.

Cheers,

Malcolm



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