Heidegger

Rene:
> Well i’ll wait here, till you, rational beings, are able to respond.
>
> but let it be said that unability to do so, shows. - that is another side
> of the name-less: that also denial and stubborn Eigensinn have no
> place to hide from it. So as long as nobody responds you are all,
> except Jud maybe, striking yourselves out. I would advise to take that
> seriously, but you are free (eh!) to do so. Cosi fan tutte!

BobS:
> rene,
> In these frantic days of precision slaughtering refugee women and
> babies, how can any topic else have standing? instead of obsessively
> playing the desparate suffering of the victims of his gangster gov’t, as he
> ought, the pianoplayer is sounding false notes of mozartian whimsy.

Well, precisely sex and music (when they’re good, that is) are the best
antidotes to your “precision slaughtering refugee women and babies”, etc,
when no real philosophy is allowed to show itself in the righteous barrage
of opinions and outrage. This is a question (that of the relationship
between philosophical discourse and so-called current events where such
discourse is not covered by or dominated by mere opinion and journalistic
reportage but seeks to move beyond such perspectivalisms…) I have raised a
number of times, to almost utter silence: I’m not really bothered, but it
seems to me that vocal list members would prefer to engage and express their
banal outrage (etc) rather than embrace the slightest inkling of
philosophical reflection regarding such (horrendous) events. It’s Heidegger
Absconditus, it seems to me.

One could do a lot worse than reflect on the nature of some of the terms
being bandied about (without thought), e.g., stealing land, victim, racism &
race, indigenous people, slaughter, war, etc, rather than continue in
thoughtless position-swapping.

Give me the joyful pianoplayer rather than the righteous plaintiff anyday.

regards

michaelP

Posted on Saturday, August 5th, 2006 at 1:50 pm
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