Cologne, 18 September 1996
Allen Scult writes:
"But how does one, even "one of the few and seldom self-selecting ones,"
authentically say the sway of truth? The truth sways, it would seem, in
the silence of the call of conscience. Can thinking uncover the sway with
any more than a "formal indication" of a certain sort of silent devotion
(Hingabe), for attending to the call of being? So the truth about truth that
thinking reveals is distinguished by the way it minimally indicates the
limited possibility for saying anything."
Well, yes, but preferably minus the vocabulary of Christian piety. There is
nothing necessarily divine in the event of the truth of being. It could just as
well be regarded as an unfortunate or fortunate (depending on your standpoint)
occurrence that opened history. We're stuck with the opening of aletheia and
have to think about it. (Now I anticipate Bob Scheetz drawing some analogy or
other with Eve's apple and the knowledge of good and evil.)
Michael
\\\ ° '~': '' /// ° artefact text and translation °~ \ ' ) ''' | . \ - °
.{.\ ~. ' ~ { } .\ : ~ °°° made by art °°° _ °/ ~ : ~:~ \./''/
http://www.webcom.com/artefact/ {.\ ~. ' ~ { } .\ : artefact@xxxxxxxxxxx
vox: (++49 221) 9520 333 fax: (++49 221) 9520 334 Dr Michael Eldred
--- from list heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ---