Heidegger

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Van: heidegger-bounces at soca.ecu.edu.au
[mailto:heidegger-bounces@soca.ecu.edu.au]Namens peter k
Verzonden: dinsdag 11 juli 2006 18:57
Aan: heidegger at soca.ecu.edu.au
Onderwerp: a question for rene, regarding organization and ‘negative
faith’

Rene, regarding what we were talking about before- organization as “has the
cancer of nihilism inside”. It sudddenly occured to me that there is no
place for morality in your equation. I’m on record as regarding morality as
being outside the institutional bounds of phenomenology, but now I’m
re-examining the question. Nihilism demands morality, because without it
there is only- (I don’t know what- maybe the holocaust). When about age four
I asked my mother what happens to you when you die- she replied (somewhat a
tyrant) they put your body in the ground and it gets eaten by worms. So
atheism was as a doctrine cultivated very early in my childhood. Later at
twelve I burnt a bible in secret, the symbol of my commitment to this
doctrine. Ever since, I rage against organized religion. But somehow,
intrinsically I know right from wrong, it seems in origin pre- oedipal in
Lacan’s discursive sense- or is it just the result of socialization after
entry into the symbolic order. Anyway my question: “cancer of nihilism” vs
morality as ‘organization’. Would appreciate your thoughts on the matter.

regards pk

Peter,

I had no problem with the words of the bible in my youth, only with
those pronouncing them. In the NT are no commandments, despite what
is made of it, also no spiritual beyond. So really i do not see your
problem, except by contamination.
If what lives around one, flourishes, that is enough for me, and the
rest is hybris. If all is reduced to that, i see no chances for harming.
Really Peter, the problem is only for those who try to justify the
malicious, they have to lie. One just has to take care to stay out of it.
Even nihilism is then no longer a cancer, it is the reducing of everything
to the null nothing, esp. morality, and we are in it because we are leaving
out the positive. That is malicious to the highest degree, and to be
recognized as such, otherwise one remains dependent. But the malice
concerned is not owned by the actual actors, who are merely willing victims.
That is the ontological malum which is just denied, and that is the summit
of hybris. It is the stuff world wars are made of.

rene

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