On 30 Oct 1995, robert scheetz wrote:
> Nik's reading sounds very close to Aristotle's metaphysical
> doctrine of the 4 causes...with Death for the Final Cause.
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> So: (1)Dasein is "that-being-which-questions-being", i.e. self-cognizant being,
> (2)whose essence is that it exists, i.e. its facticity, (3) whose primordial
> structure is
> "care", i.e. undifferentiated immersion in-the-world, and (4) whose telos is
> death, i.e. non-existence. Is that what we have here: formal, material,
> efficient, and
> final? Where #1 even preserves Aristotle's, thinking animal, anthropology?
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With respect to this analysis of Dasein:
(1) should read "that being [essent] which questions _Being_.
(2) Dasein is a how, not a what, and therefore has no essence.
(3) Care is a primordial structure, yes, but Being-in-the-World is an
existential, or mode of Concern. I'm not sure that they are available for
discussion on the same terms.
(4) How can Death be the telos of Dasein in that non-existence cannot be
grasped? None us know where we're going? Ludicrous!
Anthony Dominioni
(Tone)
Stony Brook University, NY
adominio@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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