a question if I may
June 11th, 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
>From: Tympan Segment
>Allen wants:
>
> I’m wanting to better understand what Heidegger means when he says
>that being alone is a deficient form of being with.
>
TS:
>Hi Allen, is the reference to being alone (being a lone(r)?) one like the
>state of say being on one’s own in a room? Or when we say “I’m all alone in
>the world” or in the oft quoted ad “you’re never alone with a Strand” {a
>brand of fag} or in Sinatra’s confession of “my way”, etc. Crusoe took the
>whole of his society with him in his (a)lonely sojourn on the island…
>
>Perhaps Heidegger is trying to refer to (say [note Anthony]) an other
>concept of being alone (the ‘mine’?) in speaking of these possibly
>”deficient” modes of aloneness. Along the lines of: one can only be with
>(others, the Other) if one is alone (one’s ownmost, myhood); and one can
>only be (’deficiently’) alone if one is always already (in-’deficiently’,
>fecundly, fundamentally) alone…
I once knew a student of Hubert Dreyfus who interpreted Heidegger’s statements as: being fully alive happens in relationship. In fact I once knew a professor who had someone read text to him when he wanted to get it in a way he felt he couldn’t reading it alone and to himself and my *personal experience* seems to bear this out — being alone is indeed a deficient mode of being-with …
Bob
ps - Allen, the best learning i’ve done happens in community with others — in community-wide conversation.
