Heidegger and Nixon (was Re: What?)

[Andrew Dinn]

Heikki pondered:
> > Perhaps we are witnessing Nixon opening to Dasein, which to Heidegger is a 
> > question of opening to the question, question of questioning the ontology 
> > of Western metaphysics, which he himself quit doing in the 30s, when 
> > offering himself to the service of a certain, most ontological, Spirit. 

And Paul corrected:
> Though the Heideggerian question isn't "What" (the Platonic ti to on) but 
> rather the more Husserlian "How" -- not "what is being" (enquiring after 
> essence or after the 'beingness' (Seiendheit) of being) but how being 
> comes to presence, how it presences (within the 
> horizon opened up by the 'there' of 'there-being' (Da-sein)). Whether 
> Heid. 'quits asking' this question is contentious to say the least 
> (though something called "German Dasein" does, for a time, get tangled up 
> in the question).


Well, that clears that up then.














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Andrew Dinn
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