Heidegger

Cologne 25-Dec-2007

Bernx at aol.com schrieb Mon, 24 Dec 2007 14:27:08 EST:

> In a message dated 12/24/2007 12:26:07 AM Eastern Standard Time, ME
> artefact at t-online.de writes:
>
> …..Philosophy, however, cannot take even ’space’ or
> ‘quantity’ for granted as self-evident categories. For
> ontology there is no proposition that can be posited in
> advance as a self-evident axiom which could then be used as
> a basis for further deductions…
>
> Michael;If such were the case we would have to dismiss Anaximander and
> his apieron and all notions of protohyle that are the primordial
> principle of nihilo, ousia as nothing and which is the necessary
> first premise for thinking. That is why Genesis must begin with a
> first day (of creation) as the non-differentiated mass (qua The Void).
> The same is true for Parmenides’ tautologically predicated Logos as It
> Is. In other words, an apophatic ontos must be established to arrive
> at the kataphatic ontos simply because neither are based in perception
> but the rational mode of concept formation. Perception does not
> require the Logos whereas rational and concept-forming thinking
> does.Bernard

ME: No need to dismiss Anaximander and his _apeiron_ (sic). What is
needed is to dig deeper. Hegel never dismisses an earlier philosopher
with speculative insight, but saves his insight and elevates it to a
more thought-through and hence grounded level. Similarly with _ousia_
(variously rendered as ‘beingness’, ’substance’, ‘essence’) as the first
of Aristotle’s categories. Since Hegel’s Logik and Heidegger’s question
concerning the meaning of being, i.e. for some goodly time now, this
digging deeper is underway. Hence, the category of substance in Hegel’s
Logik is not developed until the second part, Doctrine of Essence, and
does not occur in the first part, the Doctrine of Being, at all. And
Heidegger translates _ousia_ as “ständige Anwesenheit” or “standing
presence”, thus making the connection between being and time explicit
for the first time in the history of philosophy. Ex-plicating, i.e.
folding-out or laying-out, what is im-plicit or already folded into the
tradition of thinking is the task.

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