Heidegger

Pardon for the unwarranted intrusion. The following occurred in the
course of my own researches and I thought some on the list might find
it interesting.

In “Plato’s Sophist,” Heidegger says,

“Thus it happens that this dialogue manifests a peculiar
intertwining. Precisely on the path of a reflection on the Being of
beings, Plato attains the correct ground for interpreting the sophist
in his Being.”

The problem at issue here is how can philosophy obtain, get to, the
true ground of its being. In order to even approach this task,
philosophy had to first establish itself as the science of the
sciences, the “true science,” as far as science goes. This, of
course, was Husserl’s undertaking, but even if successful, Husserl’s
way of seeing does not give philosophy a way to look in on itself,
that is to see ITS own way of seeing as it shows (or claims to show)
science’s way of seeing. The only way to accomplish that is for
philosophy to “look at” its own way of showing itself, that is its
character as a phenomenon. And at the end of the day, we must
conclude, and thus join Plato in recognizing that philosophy is a
rhetorical phenomenon. And then/so, the next step is for philosophy
to understand, or to engage in understanding itself as a way of
speaking(Precisely Aristotle’s project in the RHETORIC according to
the Jewish interpretation). The question then becomes, can
philosophy “hear” (I almost said “see”) itself from inside itself?

Regards,

Allen

Posted on Sunday, June 8th, 2008 at 6:06 am
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