----- Original Message -----
From: Kevin Sanchez <moksha23@earthlink.net>
To: Andrea Sosio <Andrea.Sosio@italtel.it>
Sent: Tuesday, February 06, 2001 3:16 AM
Subject: Re: Heidegger
> dear andrea:
>
>
> well the joan stambaugh translation
> is to the macquarrie and robinson translation
> what the new international version
> is to the king james bible -
> that is, its written much more in the words
> of our modern living language,
> for one small example,
> she translate the german 'besorgen'
> as 'taking care' rather than 'solicitude'
> which shows her concern
> for both accuracy and understandibility
>
> mmm, as far as introductions,
> i might advocate pirsig actually :)
> from page one, you'll notice concepts pirsig nibbled at
> digested in a more thorough manner:
> heidegger just goes both higher and deeper
>
> those little picture-books like
> 'introducting heidegger' or 'heidegger for beginner's'
> never miss the mark completely,
> they're usually written by professors
> who've studied the material at length
> and especially appeal to visual learners
> or those who like sugar with their medicine -
> but to really understand a word-concept like
> Da-sein (the being of human being, the questioning subject)
> one must really examine all those instances
> where heidgger invokes it -
>
> and there's always going to exist
> an uncrossable gap of intrepretation
> because as heidegger's epic argues...
> we cannot divorce being from time
> or, there's no being beyond time
> or, as pirsig might say,
> a thing without value doesn't exist
> that is, every value lives
> in a very specific historical/spatial place
> (this is another way of saying that
> static qualities can never capture Dynamic Quality,
> or as heidegger puts it,
> beings can never capture being ...
> 'The being of beings 'is' itself not a being' (p6))
> in short, constantly re-cognize heidegger's historicity
> as he writes (p39)
> 'the question of the meaning of being
> is the most universal
> and the emptiest ...
> but at the same time
> the possibility inheres
> of its most acute individualization
> in each particular Da-sein.'
> so make his words yours
>
> i myself fall into a sort of heidegger rythmn -
> if you can get through that introduction (40 pages)
> then you're set -
>
> questions remain:
> 'what is is?'
> 'what does it mean to be?'
> (see how this question must be answered
> before 'what is quality?' can ever be)
> that's the big difference between heidegger and pirsig
> pirsig tries to construct a metaphysics
> heidegger contstructs an ontology which
> then nullifies/transcends/answers metaphysics
>
>
> :luv,kev
>
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