The Oddness of the OD
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Bakker, R.B.M. de wrote:
> Heidegger: Metaphysics is essentially nihilism. As in the case of theology,
> the falsity of metaphysics/nihilism is all man-made.
> The nihil, Nothing *itself* is the veil of Being, the ‘essential’ Nothing.
> The lousy nothing (nichtige Nichts) is the result of man’s not being
> equal to it. But this not being able to cope is the mark of his finitude,
> and insofar ‘essential’. Hölderlin’s simple word of the necessity for the test
> to go through the knee, gains the importance which it has, only within the
> sphere which is addressed here.
> So there ARE no: Being, Truth, Nothing etc. In our finite sphere they are
> essentially ambiguous, and also this sounds negative only to the one-sided.
> It is probably up to us, to decide, and never to *claim* one side. Rather,
> Heidegger proposes that the ambiguity/twofoldnes of od is to be led back
> to an original unity. There is no thoroughfare though when “the mortal paths are
> despised” (Hölderlin).
Heidegger did more than merely “propose” that the ambiguity of the od is
to be led back to an original unity. He showed how that very ambiguity
**philosophically necessitates** transcending it. That’s more to go on
than mere smell, Rene…
> It can’t be done, nobody can. Therefore one needs help. But are we able and willing
> to ask for and to receive help? Absolute subjectivism - now a global phenomenon - ,
> with all its metaphysical and theological vocabulary, can’t.
