Heidegger

Ant:
>> The modern technological way of being was a direct result of the failure
>> of the Aristotelian way, by *Aristotle’s* own description. It is
>> Aristotle himself who states quite clearly that by what he says about
>> physis, what Newton says about the motion of bodies cannot possibly
>> occur (215a20, De Caelo 311b29-34), that what Darwin says about the
>> generation of natural kinds cannot be correct (198b20-199a5), and that
>> Galileo must be wrong about falling bodies (216a20). All of which turned
>> out contrary to Aristotle’s predictions. This is why moderns laugh at
>> the Aristotelically minded.

ME:
> If one’s in a philosophically laughing mood, then the last laugh is
> that people keep on talking about
> _technae_ when they mean _technae poiaetikae_. This sleight of hand started
> with Aristotle and Plato, and
> continues to the present day — encouraged by Heidegger, among others. Only
> once this sleight of hand is
> noticed is there a way out of metaphysics. Heidegger himself achieved only
> the backwards leap. What is needed
> is the side-leap.

Michael, for me, in your spotting of the sleight-of-hand in Heidegger’s neat
(missed, in his thinking?) side-stepping of the technae issue, you are
re-performing Heidegger’s edict with respect to (and in respect of) an
other’s thinking: that one step back to think the other thinker’s unthought.
With your neat side-step, can you re-mind us of the other (non-poiaetikae)
technae (with the differences/inclinations in meaning) you have in mind? I’m
sure you have written at great length and breadth on this in articles at
Artefact, etc, but just a quick & easy synopsis? Some where I remember a
meaning of some cognate of techne as rather more a giving birth to than a
making of… but some how not in the same sense as genesis.

And then there’s the “way out of metaphysics”: could you expand on that? I
mean, is there an exit possible? Can metaphysics be left behind? Would this
be the same as a verwindung (of metaphysics)? In the technae question you
have unearthed and put on display, is there the clue to the way out of
metaphysics (in various ways, surely this {cf the new beginning in the
Contributions, the overcoming of metaphysics in various articles, etc} is
Heidegger’s greatest thinking task, no?)?

regards

michaelP

Posted on Thursday, July 26th, 2007 at 7:00 am
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