echampion@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> >Zen is not a tradition or practice of thinking and thus also not a thinking of
> >beyng.
> Sorry, disagree, only perhaps it is only semantics.
Zen is not an intellectual tradition at all.
> >The School of Athens is a painting, or to be more hermeneutically generous,
> >was the beginnings of the metaphysical tradition, whose destiny it was to
> >think the beyng of beings (to on hei on).
> I was referring to Plato, who is surely the start of the obscuring of Being. My
> fault for being lazy. Still, were not the earlier (ancient greek) philosophers
> closer to Heidegger? Metaphysics starts with Plato, not earlier? (Literally, with
> Aristotle).
Shouldn't that be "'Metaphysics' starts with Aristotle but metaphysics
came before him"?
Nicholas
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>
> >Zen is not a tradition or practice of thinking and thus also not a thinking of
> >beyng.
> Sorry, disagree, only perhaps it is only semantics.
Zen is not an intellectual tradition at all.
> >The School of Athens is a painting, or to be more hermeneutically generous,
> >was the beginnings of the metaphysical tradition, whose destiny it was to
> >think the beyng of beings (to on hei on).
> I was referring to Plato, who is surely the start of the obscuring of Being. My
> fault for being lazy. Still, were not the earlier (ancient greek) philosophers
> closer to Heidegger? Metaphysics starts with Plato, not earlier? (Literally, with
> Aristotle).
Shouldn't that be "'Metaphysics' starts with Aristotle but metaphysics
came before him"?
Nicholas
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