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
Allen
I probably misunderstand and this is clumsily said, but, with
respect to being a hammer, isn’t using the handle for driving a nail
a deficient way of being a hammer head and isn’t holding onto a
hammer head so as to deliver the proper blow a deficient way of being
an hammer handle? I say this from having tried, in somewhat desperate
instances, such nailing.
Ed Wall
>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
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