Heidegger

_Bernx at aol.com_ (mailto:Bernx@aol.com) writes:

3) THE PROJECTION OF THE FICTITIOUS INTO CONCRETE REALITY.

Bernard writes:
What else is new, Jud? Do you believe you have settled the question along
your way of the via negativa? Well if not for the evolved “fictions” of the
pre-socratic physiologoi grounding natural physical event in notions of
protophysis, protohyle, apieron, and all the way to Aristotle’s materia prima and the
ousia that is no-thing, you would have nothing to negate.

Jud:
One cannot negate that which does not exist to be negated. What tries to
help negate are the conceptual fantasies of the human reificationalists
themselves. Such activity seeks to help remove the gratuitous graffiti sprayed on by
trannie vandals and idealist skinheads on the sepulchers of learning.

Bernard:
Neither would inductive and empiricist science have been able to sponge off
Aristotle’s notion of Entelichia qua potentia, energeia, dynamis and morphe.
Matter (ousia) as the Master noticed did not arrive in appearance until it
was reallized as form (morphe).

Jud:
Just as Aristotle studied the works of others who had gone before, when
Aristotle was thus involved, his participation was that of a natural scientist.
Such study of antecedent opinion is a characteristic of the scientific
[rather than the religious or intuitive] approach.

Do you honestly imagine [in you maturity] that if such a man as Aristotle
had not been born, that western culture would have ground to a halt or remained
wading up to its thighs in the confusion and quasi-religious effluent of
Platonism? Aristotle was a man of his time - there were others. The human
condition includes an intentional instrumentality, which makes for a constant
process of re-evaluating, assimilating and promoting a new, changing, and
changeful version of reality into the battery of ready-made response patterns to the
environment, broadening the range of adaptation beyond the rigid norm of
crude Platonic ontologies, and yet retaining the general ready-made, proven
patterns instantly on tap.

That is, in the absence of Aristotle there would have evolved a certain
similar type of intellectual plasticity to fill the vacuum of ignorance dumped
upon the west by the anal passage of Platonism.

If Aristotle had never been born, we would no doubt be eulogising some other
person or persons who had promoted analogous ideas, and Aquinas would have
recovered some other blow-up male doll from the toy box of transcendentalism
to trick out in the black uniform of the Jesuitical Doctor Who.

Bernard:
And the forms that are essentially nominal fictions are what empiricists
cull as facts more so when they lose sight of the being of the protohyle. Jud:
The protohyle may be making a com-back labelled anew as *dark matter.* Thus
they are stuck with the articulations of dasein, such as you are and simply
stupified via negation that the primordial ground is the essent and not what it
“winnows out”
(apocrisis qua dasein) that are the fictions of the materia prima and
protohyle. Without such mythogenic fictions we are dead meat. As noted in unmarked
sympathy with Aristotle, the Biblical First Day of Creation notes the Logos
(”God”) as indwelled in undefined “matter”as an immanence or predisposition to
form (facultas praeformandi) and characterized as such as the Void or Chaos.

Jud:
I am certainly not *stuck* with the articulations of *dasein.* I see
Heideggerianism as a philosophical Play Centre* for adults - a curious sociological
throw-back to the fifties. A place to chill out from real philosophy, a
cabinet of dead ideas - a place for the study of the psychology of those that
still toy with basic building blocks of reason. Each message a slide to slip
into the waiting choreutoscope to view as if through a spyglass the awkward
mental moments of the long dead. Such metaphysical Magic Lanterns are few and far
between for those who seek to keep company with the ontologically immature -
who rejoice in such naive pleasures.

OK, it means changing the odd notional nappy or dialectical diaper, wiping
up the odd ontological whimper and helping calm down the occasional
transcendentalist tantrums between the enfant terribles and doing a spot of
baby-minding till their parents come and collect them.

It’s just a job, and can be pleasant at times. particularly when you are in
a reminiscent mood and return to the pragmatic, man of the world - the
rollicking butterfly adventurer you used to be - rather than the lazy-minded grey
lepidopteron of an idealist into which you have mysteriously metamorphosed.

Bernard: The Second Day of Creation was quite something else when the
“finger,” phallic Spirit extension of the Logos moved across the protohylic
“waters” to inseminate it and evolve forms.

Jud:
As the man said of The Great I Am…

*T’ would be better he had farsed his finger up the serpent’s ass rather
than inflict his envenymynge and wrecchednesse pon’ the world*
[Consolatio Pornographiae. pp. 36-43. Alfred. E. Neumann Christchurch, New
Zealand anno domini.1417.]

Bernard:
And of course, these “waters” were in fact Mother Ousia without form, the
Arche Mater otherwise known as the Shikinah for the Hebrews.

Jud: You mean *Old Mother Riley* don’t you? Was Shikinah a shikster?

Accordingly, that “finger” (so well noted by Michaelangelo) has evolved as
the Zeitgiest. Oh, you do not believe in Ghosts, Holy or otherwise! But I
suppose castration of Nous is the way to go these days.

Jud: It seems to be so in The Whitehouse - for the Iraqis have certainly got
the Bush and his Zionist puppeteers by the skin-fold where the balls used to
be? Regards,

Jud Evans.

_http://evans-experientialism.freewebspace.com/_
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“Reification… means any unwarranted extension of reality in the thing
perceived or conceived…
Thus reification means the taking as real that which is only apparently
real; the taking as
objectively real that which is only subjectively real; the taking as
factual, concrete or perceptual
that which is only conceptual; the taking as absolute that which is only
relative, etc.”
JAMES W. WOODARD, Intellectual, Realism and Culture Change, 1935.

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