Reply to: Re: Introduction to Heidegger- Dasein
Henk,
Henk van Tuijl wrote:
>Allen,
>
>Thanks for Heidegger's text. It is a pity we all still
>have to wait for the complete version in the GA. >
>I am still puzzled by the following passage:
>> Zur abgrenzung der Art und Weise, wie wir hier ueber >> Philosophie handeln, moechte ich Arist. selbst zum >> Zeugen rufen.
>
>Your translation:
>> I would like to call Aristotle as a witness for the >> delimitation of the way that we will deal with >> philosophy here.
>
>Your comments on the importance of Aristotle for >Heidegger and Heidegger's ethics of hermeneutics are >enlightening! There remains some doubt in my mind >about the role Aristotle plays in the passage you >quoted. Aristotle is, as you pointed out, the >important or absolute other who instills in Heidegger >the desire to act ethically in matters of philosophy.
>He emphasizes this by calling Aristotle as a witness.
>
>However, what kind of witness is Aristotle?
I would like to read Hediegger's "call" to Aristotle as a witness here as evoking the hermeneutical notion that a text
worth attending to in this way ( diligere) continues to speak in response
to a questioning
which is consistent with the Sache the text is trying to keep in view.
As to the publication of SS 1924, my sense of the delay is that it is proportionate to the significance attached to the ms. as a pivotal moment in Heidegger's early thought.
But I agree, it is a pity.
Allen
Allen Scult
515 271 2869
Website: "Heidegger on Rhetoric and Hermeneutics"
http://www.mac.drake.edu/s/scult/scult.html
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