Jud, after (wow) finding out that ordinary germans wittingly or unwittingly
went along with the holocaust asks this:
> But who gave Heidegger HIS orders? Did he NEED them? Did he give HIMSELF
> [will to will]
Jud, if you were to truly ASK this question of what calls for Heidegger's
thinking (the "giving of orders"), the es gibt, and the relation of this to
"necessity" and "will", and not just look for a ready-made answer or
ridicule or the tired flattened version of questioning as a questionnaire,
not just jump the gun, but perhaps allow a real space of the question-mark
to enter your orbit, a pause in the relentless pursuit of know-it-all
certainty, the taint of certainty, register the question-mark as a fermata,
an erotic tension in the allowing of stillness before plunging in with what
you already have in excess.... you just might think in the sense of awaiting
an answer to your call. You are in close proximity to genuine questioning
(particularly if you isolate the question from your concern with "Heidegger
the Nazi" and with laying blame, from the question concerning the "giving",
the "needing" and the "willing" [please do not just respond with your 'X
does not exist' mantra, a copout] with which you begin above. Trans-late
your (thinking) self from "orders" to "calls" and "who" to "what" and
bracket out (for now, not for ever) the concern with Nazism, and, if you
pause a while, you might be asking as to the very be-coming of philosophy
its self. Otherwise, it's just ridicule business as usual: shame.
regards
michaelP
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went along with the holocaust asks this:
> But who gave Heidegger HIS orders? Did he NEED them? Did he give HIMSELF
> [will to will]
Jud, if you were to truly ASK this question of what calls for Heidegger's
thinking (the "giving of orders"), the es gibt, and the relation of this to
"necessity" and "will", and not just look for a ready-made answer or
ridicule or the tired flattened version of questioning as a questionnaire,
not just jump the gun, but perhaps allow a real space of the question-mark
to enter your orbit, a pause in the relentless pursuit of know-it-all
certainty, the taint of certainty, register the question-mark as a fermata,
an erotic tension in the allowing of stillness before plunging in with what
you already have in excess.... you just might think in the sense of awaiting
an answer to your call. You are in close proximity to genuine questioning
(particularly if you isolate the question from your concern with "Heidegger
the Nazi" and with laying blame, from the question concerning the "giving",
the "needing" and the "willing" [please do not just respond with your 'X
does not exist' mantra, a copout] with which you begin above. Trans-late
your (thinking) self from "orders" to "calls" and "who" to "what" and
bracket out (for now, not for ever) the concern with Nazism, and, if you
pause a while, you might be asking as to the very be-coming of philosophy
its self. Otherwise, it's just ridicule business as usual: shame.
regards
michaelP
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