Heidegger

In a message dated 30/01/2007 21:57:14 GMT Standard Time,
artefact at t-online.de writes:

Cologne 30-Jan-2007

“Der Tod, wenn wir jene Unwirklichkeit so nennen wollen, ist das
Furchtbarste, und das Todte festzuhalten, das, was die größte Kraft
erfordert. Aber nicht das Leben, das sich vor dem Tode scheut und von
der Verwüstung rein bewahrt, sondern das ihn erträgt und in ihm sich
erhält, ist das Leben des Geistes. Er gewinnt seine Wahrheit nur, indem
er in der absoluten Zerrissenheit sich selbst findet. Diese Macht ist er
nicht, als das Positive, welches von dem Negativen wegsieht, wie wenn
wir von etwas sagen, dies ist nichts oder falsch, und nun, damit fertig,
davon weg zu irgend etwas anderen übergehen; sondern er ist diese Macht
nur, indem er dem Negativen im Angesicht schaut, bei ihm verweilt.
Dieses Verweilen ist die Zauberkraft, die es in das Sein umkehrt.”
(Hegel, Briefe)

“Death, if we want to call this unreality thus, is the most terrible
thing, and to firmly hold what is dead, is what demands the greatest
power. But the life of thinking spirit is not the life that shies away
from death and keeps itself pure, untouched by devastation, but the life
that bears death and maintains itself in it. The thinking spirit gains
its truth only by finding itself in absolute turmoil/tornness. This
power it is not as the positive which looks away from the negative, like
when we say of something that it is nothing or false, and now, over and
done with, pass on away from it to something else, but it is this power
only by looking the negative in the face, tarrying with it. This
tarrying is the magical power that turns it around into being.” (Hegel,
Letters)

Fancy getting a letter like that.

Jud:
Any excuse to introduce SPIRIT. Why didn’t the old turd simply say: ‘Tt is
a WELL KNOWN FACT that it helps if everyone goes through the grieving
process.’

The Irish and North British peasants and working-class have been putting
their mourning money where their mouth is [and tuppence on the dead eyes of the
corpse] for hundreds of years before ever Hegel was even thought of. Attend
an Liverpool/Irish wake as I have done many times and see *philosophy in
action * - the hoi polloi coming to terms with ‘death,’ not via the middle-class
maundering of some German jerk. I find philosophers who plagiarises the
commonplaces of the commonality, rehash it in their uppity lingo, and claim it as
their own most annoying.
The thing to look for in philosophers is SOMETHING NEW - [don’t waste your
time looking to Heidegger] not clever ways of ripping off the rationalisations
of others and claiming it as their own.

If half of those transcendentalist buggers of dead ideas were alive and
philosophising nowadays, they would shit themselves - for computer-software now
exists that can scour the web and instantly detect plagarised text, even
when words have been craftily altered to disguise the theft, and, by
analysing the stylistic rhythms and word appearance-counts etc. can unmask such
intellectual property-theft or the shameless appropriation of common knowledge
regurgitated a la Hegel immediately.

regards,

Jud Evans.
Personal Website: http://evans-experientialism.freewebspac…

Posted on Tuesday, January 30th, 2007 at 10:35 pm
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