Well said. Boris Shoshensky ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Saul Ostrow <[email protected]> To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Boris claims if X exists... Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:13:15 -0400
Yes this is exactly Heidigger's point and in turn he asks us not to view the world from our ego - but in terms of its ecology and the role we might beneficially play in it - as such we being human should be able to resist our need for our own good On 3/24/09 3:08 PM, "Michael Brady" <[email protected]> wrote: On Mar 24, 2009, at 1:12 PM, [email protected] wrote: > I despise the effect Heidegger achieved by his use of profound- > seeming, occult, opaque, and unexplained terminology. The line 'What > exists must be needed' is, call it, bogus. ... but it seems silly > and vacuous to say portentously, "If your cancer exists, it was > needed." Not if the needing is needed by the RNA/DNA of a cell that just has to grow bountifully. Your rebuttal example cleverly shifts the needing from whatever agent could generate a result (the tumorous growth) to the person ("you"). Not playing by the rules, Cheerskep. One (moi, for instance) can construe "What exists must be needed" to embrace the notion that the result is "needed" by the cause, in the sense that whatever the cause sets into motion or causation completes the cause, i.e., it is "needed" in the sense that it is inevitable or inexorable, given the cause. Ask the tumor, not the person with the tumor. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Michael Brady [email protected] -- ____________________________________________ Saul Ostrow | Visual Arts & Technologies Environment Chair, Sculpture Voice: 216-421-7927 | [email protected] | www.cia.edu<http://www.cia.edu/> The Cleveland Institute of Art | 11141 East Boulevard, Cleveland, OH 44106 ____________________________________________________________ Start your day right. Click here for great deals on coffee makers. http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/BLSrjpYTCRsSHFq0Ym1YT11ehqXHxC tjRzt3pCwkCr0LiTnEFFN5jG14Hss/
