Heidegger

MichaelE wrote not so recently:

> Heidegger’s determination of human being (Dasein) as exposure
> (Ausgesetzheit) to nothingness hits the mark. Nothingness is unlocatable in
any
> being. It is beyond the limit that defines a being _as_ a being — the
infinite
> without determination.

Michael, I’m not so sure that “beyond the limit” is the “infinite without
determination”. Perhaps the limit, the finitude, the bound of a
being-as-being, its de-finition, is not the infinite (the boundless) but
merely the not-that of the being, its edge, the other side of its edge,
rather, but the other (side) of *it* (s edge): its other, thus belonging to
its self, thus utterly finite too (determined by its self, its de-finition).
Not that being, certainly, but only the not-being of that being, its
(ownmost) not…

As Heidegger shows in The Anaximander Fragment, the apeiron (the
not-bounded) is not the formless infinite but the ‘process’ of coming into
be-ing and going out of be-ing, the refusal of the standstill, the exact
opposite of the usual formulation of be-ing as eternal constancy.

Or am I performing more crap ontological exercises?

regards

michaelP

Posted on Tuesday, November 28th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
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