File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0312, message 92


Date: Sat, 6 Dec 2003 05:26:06 +0800
Subject: Re: Gestell/Gewinnst - Truth as opinion
From: Malcolm Riddoch <m.riddoch-AT-ecu.edu.au>



On Saturday, December 6, 2003, at 04:43  AM, michaelP wrote:

> Malcom, why not a new beginning of the first beginning rather than a
> dissolution: are we so afraid of the first beginning that we need to 
> banish
> it into the mists and mysts of time or worse, banish to the disneyland 
> of
> 'the past' thus dissing it with condescension? Verwindung! Give me
> verwindung!

Hasn't it already been banished/dissolved by time? Or should we begin 
all over again and end up with Gestell circa 4250 CE? Why repeat a 
process that has got us to where we already are, and how on earth do 
you guarantee that your modern enlightened appropriation of ancient 
Greek texts is anything other than a repetition of the same?

Strange all this Greek romanticism, I still don't see this in Heidegger 
though as for him the Greeks initiated the forgetting of being, they're 
part of the whole problem that has to be thought through, and the 
problem is us.

Is it night where you are?

Malcolm



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