From: David MOREY (us@divadeus.freeserve.co.uk)
Date: Wed Oct 22 2003 - 20:15:38 BST
Matt
For Heidegger the point is that you un-cover rather than re-cover as you
say.
The point addresses the fact that you can make any sense of experience,
this is somewhat surprising. The point is that SOM sets up a false kind of
distance
between subject and object (only here can you talk about representation),
Quality refers to the unity prior to SOM, and therefore Heidegger's notion
of
truth is in this context rather than a representation context. It is
pre-distancing
rather than within SOM distancing.
regards
David M
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From: "MATTHEW PAUL KUNDERT" <mpkundert@students.wisc.edu>
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Sent: Tuesday, October 21, 2003 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: MD Truth
> 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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