Heidegger

Thanks Allen.
I’m listening, carefully listening …

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> From: heidegger-bounces at an-archos.com [mailto:heidegger-bounces@an-
>archos.com] On Behalf Of Allen M Scult
> Sent: Saturday, May 31, 2008 4:31 PM
> To: heidegger at an-archos.com
> Subject: Re: a note on philosophy and rhetoric
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> But as we can plainly see, philosophy, in order to show itself, must
> be spoken. The ground of philosophy,to recognize your question, Bob,
> is a ground well worth digging into, mining as it were. But, at the
> end of the day, said ground must yield to a showing, an above -ground
> sholwing. Even though I am getting somewhat lost inside this
> metaphor, you will notice, I can still recover the ground from which
> my speaking has sprung. There is a way back from whence we came.
> Language is the way backward and forward, from here, or there, and
> back, back into the wild blue yonder.
>
> From Des Moines, it’s Saturday night!
>
> Allen
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>
> Quoting michaelP :
>
> > Allen asks:
> >
> >> The question then becomes, can
> >> philosophy “hear” (I almost said “see”) itself from inside itself?
> >
> >
> > Bernard states:
> >
> >> Of course not, Allen. The ground for philosophy is the eidos. That
> is why
> >> Socrates was told to “make music” and which he could not do.
> Philosophers
> >> think, whereas music makers feel.
> >
> > Bernard, I’m basing my whole opera on the notion that philosophy can
> sing
> > (be-sung). One can see another’s point of view but one hears what one
> says.
> > Eidos needn’t be a visual image; Heidegger’s thinking is just as much
> based
> > upon hearing a call in that peculiarly positive-active sense as it is
> in
> > viewing what comes to light in the clearing of be-ing.
> (Philosophical)
> > thinking can be a feeling out, a hearing something out, discerning
> the music
> > in the icons of speech. Which is why Heidegger placed so much of his
> (he)art
> > in poetry.
> >
> > Heidegger sings (although his deliberate attempts at poetry suck).
> >
> > best regards and feelings
> >
> > michaelP
> >
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