Heidegger

In a message dated 21/08/2007 _allen.scult at DRAKE.EDU_
(mailto:allen.scult@DRAKE.EDU) writes:

Allen spake this recently:

It seems to me the time factor is crucial here. Enter Heidegger.
Could it be that Heidegger teaches Nietzsche? Definitely.
Jud:

It’s similar to the rather radical (that is, held by radical rabbis)
rabbinic notion, that the Oral Torah preceded the written Torah.
That is the interpretation, the way of understanding, the understood
precedes the Torah text itself.
Jud:
I too think that amor fati is both a beautiful and very pragmatic idea,
though for me such acceptance is a recognition of the material existential
imperative of a deterministic cosmos, rather than the teleological consequence of
the fantasies of some spirituous control-freak, whose modus operandi includes
such vandalistic conjuration as setting fire to low woody perennial plants in
sheep pastures, shooting lighting bolts and spitefully turning the
populations of whole cities to salt.

The radical rabbis are correct. It is really too much to ask us to believe,
that lacking a private secretary, a tape recorder, an amanuensis or even a
clip-board, Moses was able to remember and record the whole contents of the
Torah as revealed and dictated to him by god on a windy mountain top, or whilst
panicking about the sheep in his care, which were running off in all
directions, coughing their lungs up, wreathed in the smoke of a non-combustible
burning bush.

Far more sensible is the progressive rabbinical idea that attitudes towards
the Godhead, creation, teachings, legislation and the moral guidance therein
that constitute the foundational entablature upon which the rest of the Tanakh
rests was a oral feature of the teaching in primitive transportable
tabernacles and by itinerant rabbis long before it was written down, codified and
collected together as a historico-moralistic prompt-book. I have little doubt
that similar processes where a feature of most early religions.

Regards,

Jud
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Posted on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 12:30 pm
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