Trawny explains in a short note Heidegger's word of
an incubation of the principle of reason, lasting
more than 2000 years.
'Incubation' suggests a virus, a disease. To Juenger
Heidegger speaks of 'the cancer'. Those following
Heidegger's critics of Juenger -namely that he
IDENTIFIES himself with power/work - maybe already
felt reservation. And indeed: the volume 'Zu Juenger'
ed. by Trawny' offer hundreds of pages Juenger-study,
wherein Juenger is praised as the only real follower
of Nietzsche, and at the same time the harshest
criticism. (this 'at the same time' is the big
obstacle for nowadays intelligence)
In The principle of reason, i believe near the end,
Heidegger mentions a 'temple sleep'. Now Trawny
gave the clue to me: 'incubare' is originally:
laying down and sleeping in a temple to let the
god come closer.
The main point of Princ. of reason is the change of tone.
Without the change, both phases, for themselves, are
concrete, stone. Everything depends on hearing how the
tone of metaphysics, from Plato, via Cicero, to Descartes
and Leibniz, gets more and more urging. Leibniz is very
close, there's an unrest in his late letters, Heidegger
writes.
We cannot change the innumerable notes, but we can work
towards hearing the change of tone, the moment of modulation.
This moment is sudden and, like the passage of a god, can be
missed, individually and/or by all. That's why we should sleep
with the principle of demanded ground, that might turn out to
be sthing very different from the principle of Leibniz' meta-
physics, and hear a different tone in its now coercing character.
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an incubation of the principle of reason, lasting
more than 2000 years.
'Incubation' suggests a virus, a disease. To Juenger
Heidegger speaks of 'the cancer'. Those following
Heidegger's critics of Juenger -namely that he
IDENTIFIES himself with power/work - maybe already
felt reservation. And indeed: the volume 'Zu Juenger'
ed. by Trawny' offer hundreds of pages Juenger-study,
wherein Juenger is praised as the only real follower
of Nietzsche, and at the same time the harshest
criticism. (this 'at the same time' is the big
obstacle for nowadays intelligence)
In The principle of reason, i believe near the end,
Heidegger mentions a 'temple sleep'. Now Trawny
gave the clue to me: 'incubare' is originally:
laying down and sleeping in a temple to let the
god come closer.
The main point of Princ. of reason is the change of tone.
Without the change, both phases, for themselves, are
concrete, stone. Everything depends on hearing how the
tone of metaphysics, from Plato, via Cicero, to Descartes
and Leibniz, gets more and more urging. Leibniz is very
close, there's an unrest in his late letters, Heidegger
writes.
We cannot change the innumerable notes, but we can work
towards hearing the change of tone, the moment of modulation.
This moment is sudden and, like the passage of a god, can be
missed, individually and/or by all. That's why we should sleep
with the principle of demanded ground, that might turn out to
be sthing very different from the principle of Leibniz' meta-
physics, and hear a different tone in its now coercing character.
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