Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 15:44:23 -0500 (EST)
From: P Kayak <lev-AT-bloomington.in.us>
Subject: Tips on h.."Beyond Conscience"&re-eval./Heidegger


==================    D.D. Davis wrote: "beyond conscience-"
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IMHO a misunderstanding can enter when we speak of being w/o consc..

Some of this, Diane, I'm sure is obvious.  But I think not all.

Being without conscience I'll suggest is, at times, so so we don't harp
with loser-feelings.  (At other times, once in joust joined - so one does
not have second thought.)  Why should we just harp and harp to ourselves
when someone swears out loud at a chamber concert?; after a moment of
outrage we ought just to go DO something about it - or else get into it
and listen to whatever happens to be going on.

It would be my understanding, it's of course a good idea to have a
conscience and a good idea to write an occasional letter to one of them
*politician* fellars, on what we see in the newspaper.     :(    /times

In my understanding, I might well hold myself at a remove from old school
Heideggerians should they go on and on about his depth and dignity, if in
doing so they conveniently ignore a post-'80s Heidegger.  A recently
discovered H..

(Is the only old Heideggerian merely the one which is alive within
me?)          :,-)

Conscience does not harp, nor beg for agreement.  Of the most thorny
questions: where its lively place will be.


		             				- Paul
To have doubted one's first principles is the mark of a civilized man.
:					     - O.W. Holmes : 








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