Heidegger

Cologne 28-Oct-2006

michaelP schrieb Sat, 28 Oct 2006 05:40:44 +0100:

> Ken’th:
> > A duck went into a bar and asked for some crackers. The waiter said no. The
> > next day he came into the bar and asked for crackers again. The waiter said
> > no, again. The next day he came in again and asked for crackers. The waiter
> > said no. The next day the waiter said if you ask for crackers one more time
> > I will nail your beak to the counter. The next day the duck asked if the
> > waiter had any nails, “No,” said the waiter. The duck then asked “Do you
> > have any crackers”
>
> Lovely, nearly fell off my seat…
>
> But [and nowhere near as good a tale] did you hear about the Heideggerian
> who entered the Eliminatist Lounge bar and went up to the Eliminatist In
> Waiting and asked him:
>
> What is a thing?
>
> The Waiter replied:
>
> There is no such thing as “a thing”.
>
> The Heideggerian thought a while and then asked:
>
> What is “a thing”?
>
> The Waiter, exacerbated, waited not and replied:
>
> There is no such thing as “”a thing”".
>
> The Heideggerian smiled, thought a while and then asked:
>
> What is “”"a thing”"”?
>
> The Waiter didn’t even wait for the Heideggerian’s sentence to end before
> exclaiming:
>
> If you don’t stop asking me “what is a thing” I’ll give you something
> painful to think about!
>
> The Heideggerian remained silent for a few minutes and asked:
>
> Does “something” exist?
>
> The Waiter exploded:
>
> No, there is no such thing as “”something”"!
>
> The Heideggerian smiled and asked:
>
> What is a thing?
>
> ‘gards
>
> michaelP
>

Nice!
For “eliminativist” one could substitute also “analytical philosopher”, “positivist”, “logical empiricist”, inter alia.

If one looks back to the heyday of speculative philosophy in German Idealism, and the sequence of -isms thereafter through positivism to so-called ‘analytical philosophy’ (analyticism?), it becomes apparent that Heidegger’s diagnosis of Seinsvergessenheit, even in the metaphysical sense of forgetting the ontological difference, has its justification. “Seinsvergessenheit” can be rendered as ‘forgetting of being’, ‘oblivion to
being’, ‘ontological amnesia’. It’s as if the Weltgeist had got Alzheimer’s since the early nineteenth century. Fortunately, it can always recover in some future time.

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