Chris Pound catches a very important aspect of heidegger's choice
of words (why anxiety and not elan (??)) and moods.
Of course his objection to the example of love proves less his point
(love is, if anything is, a pathos) than the rather typically
impoverished sense of love in the west, a bit notorious among men.
So it is no acccident that we defend Arendt, for example, by
adverting to her love for Heidegger. No one imagines (as we
all do know far better than that) Heidegger's motives to have
been so naive or to have grown out of anything like a pathos.
What moved Heidegger was not love; but Heidegger would not
have been the only man to have been moved by anything but love.
The average man joins him in this: the passion is for what matters
and it is not for the ladies. Them you toast. Cf. Tony Bennent.
and you always toast them/engage them/know them in the plural.
Exactly not eigentlichkeit, because exactly not one's ownmost.
Is this foundational. Dunno. Chris is the anthropologist
Babette E. Babich
Mild mannered philosophy prof ...
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of words (why anxiety and not elan (??)) and moods.
Of course his objection to the example of love proves less his point
(love is, if anything is, a pathos) than the rather typically
impoverished sense of love in the west, a bit notorious among men.
So it is no acccident that we defend Arendt, for example, by
adverting to her love for Heidegger. No one imagines (as we
all do know far better than that) Heidegger's motives to have
been so naive or to have grown out of anything like a pathos.
What moved Heidegger was not love; but Heidegger would not
have been the only man to have been moved by anything but love.
The average man joins him in this: the passion is for what matters
and it is not for the ladies. Them you toast. Cf. Tony Bennent.
and you always toast them/engage them/know them in the plural.
Exactly not eigentlichkeit, because exactly not one's ownmost.
Is this foundational. Dunno. Chris is the anthropologist
Babette E. Babich
Mild mannered philosophy prof ...
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