Heidegger

Cologne 05-Aug-2008

allen scult schrieb Mon, 04 Aug 2008 20:54:24 -0500:

> At the end of the day, so much comes to depend on style(”So much
> depends on a little red wheelbarrow”): Can you really separate your
> response to M.E. from a desire to engage with his way of talking?
> Every saying, it seems, is a response to someone else’s saying, the
> linkage being a stylistic one, having to do with the “how” of the
> saying. This is in part what Augustine meant: “Love, and do what you
> will.” Understanding is so much a matter of joining, and joining. . .
> well, no one on a list like this needs it spelled out much further
> than that. In friendly collaboration, homonoia, as it were. Allen

ME: According to Aristotle, it’s the what, the how and, above all, the
who of saying that determine the rhetorical valencies. Why does the who
have most weight? It is a question of power, a power deriving from how
highly or lowly someone is estimated. We listen to those most carefully,
and take those most seriously whom we estimate most highly. And why do
we listen more carefully to certain somewhos? Presumably because of what
they say and how they put it.

The how of saying concerns our moodedness. Each of us is cast someHOW or
other into and in a momentary, changeable situation. That is our
Befindlichkeit or how we momentarily find our selves to be, our
individual or shared mode of being situationally. Such mooded mode
affects whether or not we are attuned to what another has to say and how
this somewho says it. But it is also a matter of WHAT we understand of
the world — what we have gone through in Er-fahrung, experience — that
codetermines whether we are open to another.

Whom we are prepared to listen to is a reflection of who we are our
selves. It’s a mirror play we all play in the worldplay, and it’s why
no-who has substance, apart from, perhaps a temporary, reflected weight.

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