Re: Time for Heidegger = Absolute?

Hello,

The relation between dasein and sein is indeed puzzling. Heidegger
himself chewed on this bone and found it most intractable, so much so
that he withheld the second part of _Being and Time_ for the reason
that thought failed to adequately say the matter.

If this is so, the help you need is the opposite of the help you
requested. That is to say, you don't want to remove yourself from your
dilemma but rather enter it more deeply. Then, in such depths, thought
may perhaps think what needs to be thought.

In the text _The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, World, Finitude,
Solitude_, Heidegger comments on the symbol of the circle with a dot in
its center, long familiar since Aristotle as symbolizing the nous. He
says there: "This circling movement of philosophy of couse is alien to
ordinary understanding which only ever wants to get the job in hand
over and done with as quickly as possible. But going round in circles
gets us nowhere. Above all it makes us feel dizzy, ... as though we
are suspended in the Nothing. ... The only thing that ordinary
understanding can see in this circling motion is the movement around
the periphery which always returns to its original point of departure
on the periphery. Thus it misses the decisive issue here, which is an
insight into the center of the circle as such, an insight made possible
in such a circling motion and in it alone. For the center only
manifests itself as such as we circle around it."


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  • Re: Time for Heidegger = Absolute?
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