From: MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Tue Oct 21 2003 - 23:36:11 BST
David,
David said:
Heidegger calls truth aletheia. Which is to uncover or reveal, where lethe=the river of forgetting, so that truth is to remember, or to reunite what has been alienated from each other, i.e. overcoming what SOM has torn apart, or in Pirsig Quality=truth, so that quality contains/brings together subject and object as not separate.
Matt:
Rorty, I think rightly, hates that Greek conception of truth, truth as unveiling. Truth as Platonic anamnesis is one of the formulations of representationalism for Rorty, and I can't say that I disagree.
If its a historical process, like if the West was obliterated tomorrow and in 2,000 years the East began digging up our artifacts and trying to recreate Western life, then of course there's no problem with aletheia. But that's certainly not what it meant for Plato. Plato meant that there was a Form of various things (like the Pythagorean theorem) and we should uncover it, remember it, and that would be the Truth. I don't know Heidegger well enough to know how he appropriates it, but I think its a rhetorical stretch if he simply meant something like "overcoming what SOM has torn apart." Why not say "recover" then?
Matt
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