It is worth retelling the story that a paragraph of writing from
Heidegger was presented along side a paragraph of writing of someone who
was "mad", and the queried psychologists rated Heidegger's writing as
"mad" more than the other paragraph.
On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, malcolm riddoch wrote:
>
> Chris, I would argue against the notion that
>
> >the distinction must
> >be objective, in a certain sense, in the same way that we can tell when
> >someone is mad although they believe they are sane,
>
> Isn't it precisely the indeterminate difference between the authenticity of
> being and an inauthentic absorption in beings, or ontological difference,
> that opens the existential analytic? As for madness and sanity, apart from
> the judicial and psychiatric discourses functioning in the mental health
> sector, I would say that the two terms are entirely subjective.
>
> Rather than an ethics of possible relations to the grounds (or nullity) of
> 'mineness', I am interested in the possibility that the authentic
> projection is posiited as a reaction against falling. And if so, could such
> a reactionary relation claim to be an a priori or 'objective' truth, or
> must it remain H's own subjective relation to being (perhaps following the
> detours of a Nietzschean aversion for the bourgeois herd)?
>
>
>
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> Anticipation reveals to Dasein its lostness in the they-self, and brings it
> face to face with the possibility of being itself, primarily unsupported by
> concernful solicitude, but of being itself, rather, in an impassioned
> *freedom towards death* - a freedom which has been released from the
> illusions of the 'they', and which is factical, certain of itself, and
> anxious.
>
> Heidegger, Being and Time, p.
> 311.
>
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>
>
> Malcolm Riddoch
> Murdoch University
> Western Australia
> Ph: + 61 9 228 0232
> Email: riddoch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
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Heidegger was presented along side a paragraph of writing of someone who
was "mad", and the queried psychologists rated Heidegger's writing as
"mad" more than the other paragraph.
On Sat, 27 Jan 1996, malcolm riddoch wrote:
>
> Chris, I would argue against the notion that
>
> >the distinction must
> >be objective, in a certain sense, in the same way that we can tell when
> >someone is mad although they believe they are sane,
>
> Isn't it precisely the indeterminate difference between the authenticity of
> being and an inauthentic absorption in beings, or ontological difference,
> that opens the existential analytic? As for madness and sanity, apart from
> the judicial and psychiatric discourses functioning in the mental health
> sector, I would say that the two terms are entirely subjective.
>
> Rather than an ethics of possible relations to the grounds (or nullity) of
> 'mineness', I am interested in the possibility that the authentic
> projection is posiited as a reaction against falling. And if so, could such
> a reactionary relation claim to be an a priori or 'objective' truth, or
> must it remain H's own subjective relation to being (perhaps following the
> detours of a Nietzschean aversion for the bourgeois herd)?
>
>
>
> ************************************************
>
> Anticipation reveals to Dasein its lostness in the they-self, and brings it
> face to face with the possibility of being itself, primarily unsupported by
> concernful solicitude, but of being itself, rather, in an impassioned
> *freedom towards death* - a freedom which has been released from the
> illusions of the 'they', and which is factical, certain of itself, and
> anxious.
>
> Heidegger, Being and Time, p.
> 311.
>
> ************************************************
>
>
> Malcolm Riddoch
> Murdoch University
> Western Australia
> Ph: + 61 9 228 0232
> Email: riddoch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
>
>
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