RE: atheism


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Dear Jacob,

Thank you for taking my post so seriously. I wonder if I might ask the =
following:

1. Is it self-evident what "methodological atheism" means? I really am =
not being gnomic here.

2. Is it self-evident what the "mythopoetic" is?

I do not think the answer to either of these questions is yes, though I =
have been trying to think through why you might assume it is.

I am fully aware of why you chose the date 1945, and I was being quite =
deliberate in choosing all my questioning citations from the period =
after the lecture Vom Wesen der Wahrheit up to but not beyond this date.

I am troubled by your reading of the earlier Heidegger. Is there any =
case to be made for saying that in the opeing section of Sein und Zeit =
Heidegger is beginning the deconstruction of the (Thomist) experience of =
God as that being whose essence it is to exist? Ask yourself this =
question in relation to Dasein.

One final question - what province or region do we inhabit when we =
undertake *not* to speak of God. (In this province would our =
not-speaking lead him to utter a word?)

Laurence
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