Reificational Rollercoaster (Così fan tutte)
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Van: heidegger-bounces at an-archos.com [mailto:heidegger-bounces@an-archos.com]Namens GEVANS613 at aol.com
Verzonden: woensdag 27 juni 2007 22:29
Aan: heidegger at an-archos.com
Onderwerp: Re: Reificational Rollercoaster (Così fan tutte)
never mind gets *over-familiar* with them?
Jud:
Beautifully said Renekins - it looks like the consolation of philosophy has finally delivered your well-deserved bonus. Have you been reading Boethius Alain de Botton or both? I see you no longer mention the beast of the factory farms - dare I hope that you have removed that particular metaphysical monkey from its stranglehold around your weary shoulders too? I do hope so, for without the MH mark of the beast branded into the skin of your left shoulder, you would come across as the perfectly, charming, cultured bourgeois gentleman and a tribute to your country. So if you haven’t already done so already - please try to rid yourself of the cultural and philosophical lout with whom you have been concerned for so many years. Get some deep, wholesome breaths of good Nederlandish air as you cycle along those idyllic canal banks of yours.
Dear Jud, In fact, Nietzsche and Heidegger are my teachers in this matter. For Aristotle’s insight into kinesis as the way-of-being of individual things - the basis of all later
philosophy and science, at the end of which we are stuck - , see, if you like: Of the essence and concept of physis. Before Aristotle, there are no things/onta at all (as such).
From here the way goes back to Parmenides’ to eon, which still comprises beings and Being in a mysterious way. We may have access to the inherent warning, because,
as you know probably, there are no things anymore today, only functions. The individual also has turned into a mere function. So there is a void now, and this is to be conceived
of as the sphere where a natural nature, and a humane humanity may find their place. That’s what Nietzsche and Heidegger are aiming for. Lying of course keeps one in the old place.
best
rene
