Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 16:12:28 GMT
From: cornets-AT-2005.bart.nl (cornets de groot)
Subject: Re: god and gramm


Steve Callihan wrote:
>
>This, of course, opens up the whole question of metaphysics, and whether we
>can ever really, really, get beyond metaphysics. From the Nietzschean
>perspective, it is an open question, although at the same time foregoing
>any kind of romantic escape. The Heideggerian retreat into ontology
>(ontotheology?) might possibly be seen as just such an escape (that is
>where the asceticism would lie). Nietzsche, on the other hand,
>acknowledges, it seems to me, that we are to some degree or other caught
>within the net of metaphysics (a net spun by language, logic, reason, etc.)
>and cannot get outside of it -- however, at the same time he withdraws from
>that net the character of being "true." (God is dead.) Rather, it is
>subsumed under art, as being itself a creative evolution and development (a
>becoming).


I like what you're saying, and I also like Nietzsche's boldness in just
_deeming_ God dead and metaphysics not actual. Psychologically speaking
however, would not this desire to "really, really get beyond metaphysics"
originate from the same desire that Christians have in wanting to be with
God? What metaphysics seems to represent is a sort of safe haven, where we
can rest and will not be harmed by life's turbulences. The "really, really"
thing is just another example of that desire. I think we should just accept
that language is full of traps (the only 'real' thing there being verbs) and
that it is a paradox that constitutes our universe (is and is not). After
all, only the dynamics of a paradox can guarantee continuity. An absolotum
would mean the end. 

RC



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