> It is this foray into "practical philosophy" which interested Heidegger
> most about Aristotle in the early twenties according to Gadamer. Gadamer
> suggests that Heidegger meant to follow Aristotle's phenomenological path
> from pathemata to pragmata exemplifed in the Rhetoric( p. 172 in
> "Heidegger's Ways."). My cite of Heidegger's "epiphany" which you ask
> about was mistakenly protracted. On page 32 of "Heidegger's Ways," it is
> "conscience " that Heidegger identifies with Phronesis, not Verstehen per
> se. (The direct connection between Phronesis and Verstehen was actually
> made to me by Sam Ijsseling in a conversation which your query helped me to
> recollect) But Phronesis is en-acted through rhetoric. Hence a possible
> connection between the philsophical rhetoric Aristotle outlines in The
> Rhetoric and the call of conscience.
Fascinating. Perhaps the next step is to relate phronesis and rhetoric to
political philosophy? In Heidegger's relating, he misstepped...
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> most about Aristotle in the early twenties according to Gadamer. Gadamer
> suggests that Heidegger meant to follow Aristotle's phenomenological path
> from pathemata to pragmata exemplifed in the Rhetoric( p. 172 in
> "Heidegger's Ways."). My cite of Heidegger's "epiphany" which you ask
> about was mistakenly protracted. On page 32 of "Heidegger's Ways," it is
> "conscience " that Heidegger identifies with Phronesis, not Verstehen per
> se. (The direct connection between Phronesis and Verstehen was actually
> made to me by Sam Ijsseling in a conversation which your query helped me to
> recollect) But Phronesis is en-acted through rhetoric. Hence a possible
> connection between the philsophical rhetoric Aristotle outlines in The
> Rhetoric and the call of conscience.
Fascinating. Perhaps the next step is to relate phronesis and rhetoric to
political philosophy? In Heidegger's relating, he misstepped...
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