a question if I may
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Ed,
Perhaps if you could give a reference where Heidegger “says that being alone
is a deficient form of being with,” just for some context?
Kevin Winters
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> bounces at soca.ecu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Ed Wall
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> 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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