Re: two matters

Dear Dr. Scult,
Sorry, I didn't know that was happening and I understand your concern. I
have now cut out that feature . . . I think. Tell me if it occurs again.

Gary C. Moore

----- Original Message -----
From: "allen scult" <allen.scult@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <heidegger@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2004 3:47 PM
Subject: two matters


> Matter One
>
> I tried to open the post from Gary Moore, but before I could read
> it I had to respond to the following forced response situation: "
> Sender has requested notification that you have seen this," and then
> the box-to-click: "Notify Sender," which led to whole slew of
> thoughts about who, why, how etc. Of course I refused to be party
> to this scam to wantonly penetrate by my cyber-privacy on this list.
> That is, nobody gets to know what I read or don't read, read and
> throw away, read and compose reply to but don't send. . .
>
> I'm sure the endlessly decorous, and I agree, very much missed Mr.
> Moore is himself not responsible for this, so I'm writing to
> essentially warn/incite him and fellow listers " Let's smoke out
> this virus and bomb the hell out of it."
>
> Allen in a Bushy mood.
>
> Matter Two:
>
> Head this "Heidegger's appropriation of Aristotle"
>
> Reading recent piece by Stanley Rosen, reporting that Heidegger
> "over-read" and "misconstrued " Aristotle's notion that knowledge
> (the province of speculative thought)can be forgotten but phronesis
> cannot, because supposedly phronesis is re-newed in every situation
> where it is applied/understood(Gadamer). Another attempt by
> Heidegger to join the farmers on on the mountain, getting his
> know-how from the soil
>
> According to Rosen, Aristotle leaves phronesis to the soil-that's
> bottoms soil, the most fertile-
> 'ontic" through and through. So Heidegger's ontological
> appropriation of phronesis is a wrongheaded self-justifying bit
> over-reading.
>
> Wrong, I say. I think Rosen under-reads Aristotle and therefore
> misses the rigor and elegance
> of Heidegger's most central learning-teaching out of Aristotle.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Allen
>
> P.S. You don't have to read this if you don't want to.
>
>
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