Heidegger

On 31 Jul 2006, at 23:22, Bernx at aol.com wrote:

> 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.

Clearly recognised by Dostoyevsky and diagnosed as the madness of
nihilism.

Abdassamad

Posted on Tuesday, August 1st, 2006 at 12:15 am
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