Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 14:29:44 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: The Orality of Fear


>Allen recently wrote:
>
>>  But the distinctive rigor of philosophizing as Heidegger does it
>>  doesn't stop there.  He continues to exercise it  by insisting that
>>  "factical life experience must not be only the point of departure for
>>  philososphizing but precisely that which essentially hinders
>>  philosophizing itself."(11)
>
>Allen this feels (sorry for lack of vigour) like the Heraclitean 'being
>tends to be cryptic' or 'being likes to hide itself': that the very
>revelation of beings (and thus being)-- philosophy -- is precisely the means
>for its obscuration (that emerging into speech, the revelation of beings is
>hidden (covered over, skipped) by the speech itself; but that is not
>nothing).

Not quite the same, Michael, at least not the way that I read it. 
Heidegger is not talking about philosophy itself in the last phrase, 
but seems rather to be saying that the nature of  factical life 
experience must be recognized (not quite right) as hindering the 
philosophical turn that it offers from within itself, at the same 
time and in the same way that it offers the possibility of 
philosophy.  So generally speaking , Heidegger's observation might 
fall within that of Heraclitus, but is more deliberately and 
explicitly "methodological."

Best,

Allen



>
>regards
>
>michaelP
>
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