Heidegger

In a message dated 26/10/2006 11:26:39 GMT Standard Time,
artefact at t-online.de writes:

Cologne 26-October-2006

That Pete schrieb Tue, 24 Oct 2006 20:34:28 -0700 (PDT):

> Small wonder he would resign his position six months later, and return to
> teaching.

Whereupon one of Heidegger’s associates (I forget which one at the moment –
Max
Müller?) quipped, “Back from Syracuse?”.

Crossing the line — from being to beings, from the infinite to the finite,
the
absolute to the relative, freedom to compulsion, the universal to the
singular,
_theoria_ to _praxis_, from vita contemplativa to vita activa — is a
perilous
undertaking. And Heidegger came to grief.

For the materialist eliminativist, of course, such a line, as usual, does
not
exist. It is said to be an ‘abstraction’. To talk of freedom or life in
eliminativism makes no sense — they have been rubbed out of existence.

Philosophy is das Beisichsein des Denkens and hence absolute, free.

Dear Doc,
Not quite correct I’m afraid. To be precise the term ‘eliminative
materialist’ is the term or designation usually
employed in most Dictionaries of Philosophy, academic papers and internet
discussion traffic.
In British Universities the term used to describe such a module is
‘Eliminative Materialism.’

I doubt if most eliminative materialists would quibble with your description
of Heidegger’s voluntarily or forced resignation
from the rectorship and referring to his experience with such a useful
fiction as: ‘as crossing the line.’ They wouldn’t waste their time picking you up
on it - unless you were claiming that an imaginary line actually existed,
mainly because their doctrineal theorising is skewed to matters neurological,
and their main battleground [the Churchills for instance] is concerned with
matters of dualism and the philosophy of mind.

Strictly speaking I am not an eliminative materialist, although I agree with
everything they say - that is I have not yet encountered anything that they
say with which I disagree. I am my own man, with my own philosophy/ontology,
which I have named Eliminative Determinism.,

BTW - I have just encountered a new Jewish hero - Spinoza, who [rather
incredibly I think considering the risks,] declared himself to be a determinist
who uses the term God as a synonym for Nature. Intellectually he runs rings
around the tiresome goy plodder Descartes.

regards,

Jud Evans.
Personal Website: http://evans-experientialism.freewebspac…

Posted on Thursday, October 26th, 2006 at 11:15 am
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