a question if I may
June 10th, 2006, search relatedRelated posts :: Horton hears a somewho (noob question) :: A Prejudiced Heideggerian Inquiry into The Pseudo-Question of Being :: An Unprejudiced Inquiry into The Question of Being :: Question of Relevance
I’m wanting to better understand what Heidegger means when he says
that being alone is a deficient form of being with. The other place
where he uses such an expression (there might be others still) is
when he says that assertion is a deficient form of interpretation.
It seems obvious that there he means “a lesser form,” that is,
hermeneutically less adequate.
Every factical enactment of a hermeneutical possibility may be more
or less authentic. It seems that in order to be so, every authentic
step in understanding must have its pseudos: It looks like the path,
but it isn’t. I know many examples of this, most of them for some
reason are in the realm of religion.
Well, the confusing conclusion I come to here is that being alone and
being with are each pseudos of the other.
Regards,
Allen
