Rene de Bakker wrote:
> >>One just cannot speak of 'the ontological' this way, without getting
>into
> >>contradictions. And falling prey to Jud's razor blade: it does not
>exist.
> >
> >Well ontically, it doesn't exist. Just as Heidegger says that ontically,
> >Dasein's essence is no-thing, which is why Heidegger's ontology leaves
> >scientists and analytical philosophers pulling their hair out - they
>can't >get beyond the ontic.
>
>Heidegger's ontic is not their ontic. For instance Dasein is ontic and
>ontological.
>BT, German p. 12: "The ontical distinction of Dasein consists therein,
>that it IS ontologically." Which does not mean, he continues, that Dasein
>is building ontologies. Is ontology taken as explicit theoretical
>questioning,
>then 'being ontologically' means 'being pre-ontologically'. And that means
>not simply 'being-ontically', but 'being in the mode of an understanding of
>Being."
It is so imprecise to characterize this simply as "Dasein is ontic and
ontological". To say that "The ontical distinction of Dasein consists in
that it IS ontologically" is the same thing as saying that ontologically,
Dasein is not a distinct ontic entity at all (look at the first sentence of
that same paragraph: "Dasein is an entity which does not just occur among
other entities.").
>Anyway, ontical and (pre-) ontological are so opaquely interweaved, that
>their distinction is helpful only as a very provisional device to make out
>at a specific point, what the talk is about.
They are NOT "opaquely interweaved" at all! That's like saying that
Heidegger is "opaquely interweaving" essence with existence when he says
that Dasein's essence is existence. He's just saying that ontologically,
Dasein at its "essence" is no ontical essence at all, but pure potentiality
for being. That's not opaque; it is just a play on traditional terminology,
based on the traditional way of ontologically analyzing something in terms
of its "essence" or "essential features."
Anthony Crifasi
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