Also as to the question whether man is a (rational) animal,
or that he is as something else.
One reads: 'animal rationale' is a metaphysical notion, and
thinks: that's up to metaphysics; now we are Dasein.
But it's the very opposite: metaphysics, by the animal rationale,
was directed towards the more than animal-like, the meta-animal.
See what the last metaphysician, Nietzsche, writes:
"Man is the UNANIMAL and OVERANIMAL; higher man is the unman
and overman. (...)" (WtP, n. 1027)
(unanimal: Untier
Overanimal: Uebertier)
The question animal-man cannot be deposited in history.
Rather, we are NOW, in the state wherein we are (a state
wherein the sense of being is lost, questionable), this
confused, 'nicht-festgestellte' animal.
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or that he is as something else.
One reads: 'animal rationale' is a metaphysical notion, and
thinks: that's up to metaphysics; now we are Dasein.
But it's the very opposite: metaphysics, by the animal rationale,
was directed towards the more than animal-like, the meta-animal.
See what the last metaphysician, Nietzsche, writes:
"Man is the UNANIMAL and OVERANIMAL; higher man is the unman
and overman. (...)" (WtP, n. 1027)
(unanimal: Untier
Overanimal: Uebertier)
The question animal-man cannot be deposited in history.
Rather, we are NOW, in the state wherein we are (a state
wherein the sense of being is lost, questionable), this
confused, 'nicht-festgestellte' animal.
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