Nov. 23 Rita wrote:
"Either way, the death/guilt drive is bothering me here. Does anyone else
"think there is something fishy here? Why should Being-towards-death and anxiety
"be that by which meaning is disclosed? I find this highly unsatisfying as
"an account. I much prefer ex-tasis and thauma *and creativity* --
"present more so in later Heidegger -- as disclosing of Being.
Me too. Why "Death, care, falling, ...structures of Dasein?
instead of elan, reason, exaltation...? Aren't H's core concepts
rather idiosyncratic, or arbitrary, and dogmatic?
Seems he projects the biological event, death, onto ontology
as the Null; as the Scholastics did with generation and life, as
God. "Nothing" is a concept like "God," perfectly vacuous except
as indicating the unknowable, ineffable; and since he makes the Nihil the matrix
and repository of Being, it feels like a kind of ironic Thomism.
feels like he's reworking a Q text (Western onto-theology)
liberally eliding and transforming, but careful to elucidate his
notion of the mysterium and kerygma.
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