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Dear Jacob -=20
How do you interpret and answer the following:
1 [Nietzsche lectures, Der Wille zur Macht als Kunst, Volume I p. 183 =
(Krell vol 1, p. 156)] ... Das wort =BBGott ist tot=AB ist kein =
atheistischer Lehrsatz, sondern die Formel f=FCr die Grunderfahrung =
eines Ereignisses der abendl=E4dischen Geschichte
(The word "God is dead" is not an atheistical doctrinal-proposition =
(Krell has "proclamation"), but the formula for the basic experience of =
an event of western history)
2. [Beitraege zur Philosophie p. 410]. Der letzte Gott hat seine =
einzigste Einzigkeit und steht ausserhalb jener verrechnenden =
Bestimmung, was die Titel "Mono-theismus", "Pan-theismus" und =
"A-theismus" meinen. "Monotheismus" und alle Arten des "Theismus" gibt =
es erst seit der j=FCdisch-christlichen "Apologetik", die die =
"Metaphysik" zur denkerischen Voraussetzung hat. Mit dem Tod dieses =
Gottes fallen alle Theismen dahin.
( ... with the death of this God all theisms collapse) including =
a-theism?
3. [Gesamtausgabe 50 Grunderfahrung und Grundstimmung section 6 Gott- =
und Weltlosigkeit des neuzeitlichen Menschen, (e) p 115.] Solange der =
Mensch gott-los ist, muss er auch welt-los sein.
(For as long as (hu)man is godless, must (s)he be also worldless)
Please note these citations all pre-date your date of 1945.
Some questions.
1. What is "methodological" that it could also be "atheistic" (What is =
being said here)? =20
2. Is methodological athesim precisely that path (remember gk., he met' =
hodos =3D traverse, path) one might traverse to discover with Nietzsche =
"Zwei Jahrtausende beinahe und nicht ein einziger neuer Gott!" (Two =
thousand years nearly, and no new God) - that God is a "creation" of =
(hu)man? =20
3. If this is so, what happens in and to the Kantian systematic unity of =
"der Gott, die Welt, der Mensch" (cf Opus Postumum, English translation =
p 240. For Heidegger's view of this, cf the Schelling lectures, =
Gesamtausgabe 42, one of the earliest places where Heidegger speaks of =
onto-theo-logy)?
4. If I can be an a-theist, can I be an a-cosmist? =20
5. Now you've stopped laughing, ask yourself this - is the whole of =
Nihilism a-cosmism? (What does it mean to e-valuate?, ie what was =
Nietzsche's critique of Descartes' cogito?).
6. This question also could be asked: "is methodological atheism no more =
than the devalutation of the uppermost values"?
Depending on how one answers these questions, nothing yet may have been =
said of faith or God.
And again. =20
7. In the Parmenides lectures (Gesamtausgabe 54) Heidegger asks "wer ist =
die Goettin?" - who is the Goddess (in the Parmenidean fragments)? =20
He answers - the Goddess is truth. Truth, you will recall is the =
(Greekly thought) basic experience of being(s) (cf Gesamtausgabe 51). =20
8. Is the God(dess) created or creating?
9. Is the Goddess das Seiende, das Sein, or das Seiende im Ganze? =
Whichever she were would fundamentally alter the outcome for her *and* =
truth. Which is rather Heidegger's point. =20
And still nothing yet may have been said of faith and the God(dess) (the =
divine).
A pointer: I do not particularly think that the earlier Heidegger is in =
conflict with these later statements and questions.
Laurence
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