Heidegger

The question then becomes, can philosophy “hear” (I almost said “see”)
itself from inside itself?

Howdy Allen,

If you’d kindly indulge the barely initiated.

What is Philosophy? … is the question really about the being of Human
being? … what is it to be Human?
Is the power in the question, in the questioning?
Are philosophers distinct from philosophy?

Philosophy, it seems to me, must see itself in its reflections if at all, so
then the question becomes one of reflection.

Bob

> —–Original Message—–
> From: heidegger-bounces at an-archos.com [mailto:heidegger-bounces@an-
>archos.com] On Behalf Of allen scult
> Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 8:43 PM
> To: Discussions pertaining to the philosophy of Martin Heidegger
> Subject: a note on philosophy and rhetoric
>
> 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
>
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