Heidegger

What’s interesting to me are the next few paragraphs, where Aristotle
specifically elaborates on knowledge as ultimately the result of
induction from sensation.

allen scult wrote:

> There’s only one way to say what I want to say and that is with a
> brutishly, braggardly, bloated sense of self importance. I beg your
> pardon.
>
> I taught the first sentence of Aristotle’s Metaphysics today. I
> found myself seeing into the depthful reccesses of each word. I
> heard things I never said before, things I could not have said if I
> wasn’t teaching the first sentence of Aristotle’s Metaphysics on this
> day in this class.
>
> I feel there is something ontological(sic) in saying things this way.
> The reach of the saying must be far and wide because of the
> relationship in which the saying is being said. It’s not that they
> are further away from the words than my professorial colleagues, but
> rather their understanding of the words is without guile, true and
> direct, and so must the words be said. I think this is
> philosophizing of a rare sort.
>
> To give you an example, the students were moved to think the thinking
> of that first sentence as an ethical imperative–to love the world in
> the way it needs to be loved if it is to be what it is.
>
> Again, my apologies.
>
> Allen

Posted on Saturday, December 1st, 2007 at 2:50 pm
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