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A problem I have been dealing with in Heidegger
is that In BEING AND TIME, Heidegger takes
a very radical view of dasein's authentic
appropriation of tradition which, by necessity,
completely takes it apart and puts it back
together again as dasein actually knows it
instead of the 'everyday' passive acceptance
of a vague theme of what tradition is that
never examines it rationally in detail or
judge even if it fits together coherently.Gary
C. Moore 2001
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This is Gary’s first letter to the plato-parmenides
list Sent: Tuesday, April 04,
FIRST: Have any of you read John M. Berry's
paper "The Reliability of Heidegger's
Reading of Plato's Gigantomachia" found
at the Ereignis - Heidegger, Martin web site
and the Paideia web site? It seems to me
very good in making the point that in his
lecture course, Heidegger deliberately left
out or mistranslated the meaning of being
as "presence" instead of "power.
The Stranger says, according to Berry's translation,
"For I am establishing that there is
a border that confines the beings in such
a way that they are nothing else but power"
(247de). Berry also says, "(Heidegger)
blatantly misreads the text, changing the
untranslated aswmaton -- 'bodiless' -- into
aoraton -- 'invisible' . . . He has shifted
the [meaning. ed.] from its proper basis
on the distinction between bodies and bodiless
things to base it on a totally different
distinction which plays an entirely different
role in the text . . .
He then reformulates the Being = power ontology,
keystone of the whole dialogue, so that it
can be understood as arising out of his misreading
of the text. Being = power becomes Being
= possibility-of-presence -- an obviously
watered-down reading of the Greek with no
justification at all in the text!" Heidegger
strangely enough, in the first volume of
his Nietzsche equates will- to-power with
being and in a number of places emphasizes
physis as the fundamental opening out of
being into disclosedness. Any comments on
this would be appreciated.
SECOND: Has anybody studied the influence
of Plato on Heidegger? A literal understanding
of Plato's writings seems to have led Heidegger
to some of his basic concepts, i. e., "idea"
as both literal sight and a remembrance through
sight which eventually becomes an abstraction,
and Heidegger's concept of "falleness"
which seems to be derived from Plato's myth
of a pre-existent soul, a memory of which
is found in the yearning-back concept of
anamnesis, but with which Heidegger drops
any belief in a pre-existent soul and keeps
anamnesis as a sense of "throwness"
into a place where one does not belong and
is not at home (uncanny, unheimlich) which
is falleness without a place to fall from.
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