Symptoms as Evidence
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GEVANS613 at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 18/05/2008 14:33:06 GMT Standard Time,
> jPolanik at nc.rr.com writes:
>
> toxoplasma gondii is an infectious parasite whose life cycle requires
> infecting felines and being excreted back into the environment where the
> parasite can then infect many other creatures — including humans. the
> parasite selectively infects muscle and brain tissue.
>
>
> Jud:
> The above may explain an old mystery which has its origins in a
> newspaper report (Freiburgs Nationaler Sozialist Abend-Lugner) that a
> women who was sitting in the row of seats behind Heidegger and his
> (private) party at a production of /Der fliegende Holländer/ reported
> that she and her husband saw what looked like little worms or yellowish
> grubs wriggling out of Heideggers ears. They disgorged from his
> ears onto the shoulders of his evening jacket, and disappeared into the
> loosely sewn, badly-fitting seams of his coat (all the Jewish tailors
> had left Freiburg by that time.) She reported that at the time it
> happened (her account was written 40 years later in 1976) she was too
> embarrassed to mention it to him, and when her husband saw them too,
> they quietly left their seats and moved to another part of the opera house.
>
> That would certainly explain Heideggers obviously infected brain tissue,
> but Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease* *is another possibility, that is, if he
> was as fond of cows as young girls?
>
> Hope this helps?
well, it doesn’t help at all. The urban legend you are (re)telling is
obviously false. For one thing, the parasite is microscopic and the
couple sitting behind Heidegger wouldn’t have been able to see them
being excreted from Heidegger’s ear.
in any event, the thing that remains to be explained is how the
professor can interpret a schizophrenic symptom (in this case, loss of
the first person perspective) as evidence in favor of a philosophy that
insists that we each take the first person perspective when
self-referencing.
if you’ll recall, Heidegger indicated that dasein should always refer to
itself in the first person; and, as an example of this practice, gave
saying “I am”.
surely, the Heidegger would not have given, as an example of a practice
he thought necessary, a statement that was not true when uttered.
would you not agree?
Joe
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Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda
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