On Mon, 17 Jun 1996, Michael D. Pennamacoor wrote:
> Eric Champion recently wrote:
> >Please tell me where the quote "Being needs man" comes from. If it is not
> >a quote,
> >please explain where you have taken the paraphrasing from. I do not recall
> >this at
> >all, and would have thought that Heidegger would view such talk as an
> >anthropological mis-take on thinking about Being.
The "Anaximander Fragment" from Holzwege, translated in Early Greek
Thinking. Heidegger explicitly says that this should not be mistaken
for anthropology. It really says no more than that without thinking,
there would not be being.
Incidentally, the word Heidegger uses, "brauchen", also means to use, so
the phrase also means being uses man. In a similar vein, in the 1934/5
lecture course on Hoelderlin, Heidegger says that by virtue of speech man
is a "tool" of being [Seyn].
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> Eric Champion recently wrote:
> >Please tell me where the quote "Being needs man" comes from. If it is not
> >a quote,
> >please explain where you have taken the paraphrasing from. I do not recall
> >this at
> >all, and would have thought that Heidegger would view such talk as an
> >anthropological mis-take on thinking about Being.
The "Anaximander Fragment" from Holzwege, translated in Early Greek
Thinking. Heidegger explicitly says that this should not be mistaken
for anthropology. It really says no more than that without thinking,
there would not be being.
Incidentally, the word Heidegger uses, "brauchen", also means to use, so
the phrase also means being uses man. In a similar vein, in the 1934/5
lecture course on Hoelderlin, Heidegger says that by virtue of speech man
is a "tool" of being [Seyn].
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