On Tue, 4 Nov 1997, Panu Minkkinen wrote:
> Dear Joseph,
>
> Work and the influenza, an unfortunately incompatible coctail, are
> forcing me to be more brief than I would like to be. Nevertheless:
>
> 4 Nov 1997, Joseph Milne wrote:
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> > We could attribute technology to hubris. But equally we could attribute it
> > to man's fear and sense of powerlessness and an offort to overcome this.
>
> We could. And this attribution, this attempt at "coming to terms" with our
> limitedness, would start the technological circle again. It could result
> in yet another technological discourse on Dasein trying to appropriate the
> world in which it dwells.
>
> > Thus so many ordinary people put their hopes in technology and science in
> > the hope that all suffering may one day be overcome. It is always worth
> > looking to see what is being evaded in any ideology or hope.
>
> For me, "technology" is not the object of Dasein's hopes and fears (as in
> "... people put their hopes in technology ....") but, rather, a
> particular mode of "hoping" and "fearing". For me, the enigma lies in the
> essence of such a "technological hoping and fearing". What is being
> evaded? Death?
How long do we have to keep on buying this? Death isn't being evaded. This
really seems to be mistaken. Many or even most who develop technology are
fully "authentic being towards death". This is just wrong.
What is being evaded is nonviolence and multiplicity, and we should note
that the evasion of nonviolence is due to the very kind of structure of
guilt that Heidegger propounds.
TMB
>
> > On the other
> > hand, fear and hubris may be two sides of one essential deeper thing.
>
> Yes! This is what I had in mind in earlier posts prior to our exchange
> where I was trying to take up the issue of desire.
>
> Forgive me the brevity. I'll try to make up for it later.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Panu
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