RE: Outstanding thinkers


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"The thinker standing in the draught leads to another draft.
Socrates let the draught blow right through him and presented the =
missive draft=20
immediately to the polis. With the well-known consequences."

Maybe Socrates was more of a saint than a thinker. Maybe the two words =
are synonyms.

"The thinkers inscribe in the stillness of their shelter the snatches =
they catch=20
of the draught whistling by and leave this inscription for later =
generations. "

Huh? So Socrates also sat in a drafty cabin on a mountaintop and =
scrawled about beyng? :-)

"Writing as frozen wind. The pull of beyng has to be broken down, =
filtered,=20
engraved in matter and left behind."

Frozen wind? Sounds like a lot of hot air to me! Okay, seriously, =
doesn't "your" formulation (we better credit Heidegger) sound more like =
pretentious poetry than ruthless thinking?=20

To express the issue in thought: Aren't you simply saying that the =
discursive intellect has its limits? If not, what is the extra dimension =
to which you point?
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