Heidegger

“Verstehen is immer gestimmtes,” translated by M. as “Understanding
always has its mood.” But some moods are clearer than others. I can
be in a particular neurotic mood, that is, a mood pecularly and
uniquely my own. I have come to understand that mood, even though
I’m not always able to control it. But I can remember, re-imagine a
moment just past when my neurotic mood changed suddenly and left me
relatively “clear.” With the two moods side by side, I could
recapture the mood of relative clarity and think from there. My
question is, is it possible to think a kind of objectivity, that is
autonomously, that is independent of one’s neuroses? It would seem
so.

Allen

Posted on Monday, April 14th, 2008 at 1:40 pm
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