Aristotle on suicide [was Heidegger Email List?]
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In a message dated 7/31/2006 8:21:37 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
rscheetz at cboss.com writes:
—– Original Message —–
From: Bernx at aol.com
To: heidegger at soca.ecu.edu.au
Sent: Monday, July 31, 2006 5:30 AM
Subject: Re: Aristotle on suicide [was Heidegger Email List?]
In a message dated 7/30/2006 11:00:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rscheetz at cboss.com writes:
So, …not to quibble over semantics or technicalities, the point is that in
each case the person actively choses death, and achieves thereby translation
into higher being, from man to god.
Accordingly, suicide is the greatest assertton of the will to power insofar
as thanatos is the via regia to final perfection.
Bernard
(bxbovasso)
I find heid’s formulation, resolute being towards death, the via crucis,
superior to nietzsche’s. you are being ironic and that really makes the pt, -the
clear absurdity of wtp analysis of jesus or soc, contra nietzsche.
I prefer to take “will to power” in the phenomenological sense;,i.e., without
value or moral judgement of it. The telos of the will to power is final
perfection, a state (of being) that is suprordinate to that of mortality. Final
perfection, of course, is a surrogate term for whatever we call God (as a
singulaity), not so much as to become the Divinity but attain proximity to it. This
would include the so-called atheist. Heidegger notes: “The god-less thinking
which must abandon the god of
philosophy, god as causa sui, is perhaps closer to the divine God. Here this
means only: god-less thinking is more open to Him than onto-theo-logic would
like to admit.” (Idenity and Difference, 1957) since suicide is the greatest
power known to humankind it must stand in equivalence to its goal, the final
perfection which is the original (ur) perfection known as the first day (of
creation) in Genesis, or what the alchemist Gehard Dorn refered to as the unus
mundus, the undifferentiated unity standing outside the dasien reality of time and
space and its particularities “out there.” The final qua ur perfection is
thus as state of pure potential, a facultus praeformandi and that is to say,
Being on the verge of Becoming. Thanatos reverses the process in what Heidegger
would call the “step back” to Being more often realized as the impatience of
the suicide to achieve unity with this unus mundus.
Sincerely;
Bernard
(bxbovasso)
