On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Capurro Annette wrote:
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> From: heidegger
> To: heidegger
> Subject: Re: The Q of V
> Date: Wednesday, July 31, 1996 2:33PM
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> Dear Tom B.
>
> maybe you are identifying the question of violence with the question of
> evil.
I think that I'm suggesting that the question of (non)violence proceeds in
part in a deconstruction of the question of evil.
> Levinas is indeed approaching the question of violence metaphysically and he
> is doing this by a kind of sacralization of the Other (as the place where
> the Infinite-Other appears...). The question is, for me, if there is any non
> metaphysical reason (well, this is an oxymoron!) why we should (!) not be
> violent or, in other terms, whether there is a non-metaphysical ethics.
> Heidegger was asking for this in his question about the relation between
> ethos and physis. Ethos (with Epsilon) leads, according to Aristotle to
> Eethos (with Etha). The last one is understood (by H.) as dwelling, as the
> way we "are", we "dwell". I think Levinas turns this relationship the other
> way around, founding Eethos on Ethos (character or mood).
> Cheers
> Rafael
>
I don't understand your distinctions between Ethos (what is Epsilon?) and
Eethos, etc. I do favor the sense of ethos as dwelling, and "privately",
in my own thinking, I generally have a distinction between ethos and
morality. I associate "ethos" roughtly with space/place and "morality"
with time/ends. Ethos is a kind of static view, morality a more temporal
one. I don't know how that relates to what you're saying.
Your question about "why" I think is well formulated and preserves a
clarity of a very important moment, and a difficult one, too. I guess
I'll just have to think on it.
Regards,
Tom B.
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"I'll take my coffee without sugar produced in slave labor camps, on third
world plantations or by prison chain gangs, thank you."
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>
>
> ----------
> From: heidegger
> To: heidegger
> Subject: Re: The Q of V
> Date: Wednesday, July 31, 1996 2:33PM
>
> Dear Tom B.
>
> maybe you are identifying the question of violence with the question of
> evil.
I think that I'm suggesting that the question of (non)violence proceeds in
part in a deconstruction of the question of evil.
> Levinas is indeed approaching the question of violence metaphysically and he
> is doing this by a kind of sacralization of the Other (as the place where
> the Infinite-Other appears...). The question is, for me, if there is any non
> metaphysical reason (well, this is an oxymoron!) why we should (!) not be
> violent or, in other terms, whether there is a non-metaphysical ethics.
> Heidegger was asking for this in his question about the relation between
> ethos and physis. Ethos (with Epsilon) leads, according to Aristotle to
> Eethos (with Etha). The last one is understood (by H.) as dwelling, as the
> way we "are", we "dwell". I think Levinas turns this relationship the other
> way around, founding Eethos on Ethos (character or mood).
> Cheers
> Rafael
>
I don't understand your distinctions between Ethos (what is Epsilon?) and
Eethos, etc. I do favor the sense of ethos as dwelling, and "privately",
in my own thinking, I generally have a distinction between ethos and
morality. I associate "ethos" roughtly with space/place and "morality"
with time/ends. Ethos is a kind of static view, morality a more temporal
one. I don't know how that relates to what you're saying.
Your question about "why" I think is well formulated and preserves a
clarity of a very important moment, and a difficult one, too. I guess
I'll just have to think on it.
Regards,
Tom B.
_____________________________________________________________________
"I'll take my coffee without sugar produced in slave labor camps, on third
world plantations or by prison chain gangs, thank you."
_____________________________________________________________________
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