Rene, in what way can "ontological lying" be thematised without necessarily
lying about it (since, perhaps, it is not a topicalisable thing or
theme...)?
Michael, your way of putting it shows its own viewlessness.
It's putting things thus, that one cannot get out.
Meanwhile getting out might be surprisingly easy: a decision.
Pro truth as aletheia, contra truth as mere verifiability, which
is just a lie, and can only lead to more lie.
One gotta choose HERE, Michael, and if you don't, like Anthony
didn't want, there's going to be a question, why not.
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Now you point to the REAL ISSUE AND TASK. We know that "decision" is not an intentional act of a subject and certainly not a process of deliberation lost in some sort of private language game. It's like a "cut" that happens, a ceasura that occurs, an "event" as the unveiling of truth that shows the tendency of truth to withdraw into concealment. The withdrawal is what Schelling calls the "foundation" and is like a raging peace, a sleeping volcano, the gathering of storm clouds, etc... You get the sense of tremendous amount of pressure on the verge of being ignited and exploding. This is potentiality in act... (cf. aristotle). Giorgi Agamben writes that "potentiality in act *as potentiality* is to think enunciation on the plane of langue and to inscribe a ceasura in possibility, a caesura that divides it into a possibility and an impossibility, into a potentiality and an impotentiality; it is to situate a subject in this very ceasura." To think enunciation on the plane of langue means one is not moving towards an act of speech but remaining, abiding, standing together in a potentiality of speech. It's a vigil... which expresses, and not very clearly, the tragic aspects of being a human being. Enunciation is closer to the order of tears than it is to the propositional discourse of those who are in control of their faculties and always present a proper form in public. There is something shameful about crying specially for men no doubt. While sticking to the issues and tasks that are necessary however contingent they may turn our to be; this is how to respond to a tragic situation with empathy, with solidarity. Agamben calls it testimony and "is a potentiality that becomes actual through an impotentiality of speech; it is, moreover, an impossibility that gives itself existence through a possibility of speaking". Testimony is not the expression of a subject or consciousness but rather a way that a total desubjectification like death or an uprooting abandonment manages to express it's suffering through a sort of collective mourning. Crying is not a weak response rene. It is extremely invigorating and vital and feels really good.
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tympan
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