Does the Quality of a chair always have four legs or three? Are the
metal or
wood ? Are they heavy or light, Is is not the "sittingness of the
thing that
becomes it's "thingness"
mando
On Apr 20, 2009, at 11:13 AM, Saul Ostrow wrote:
the notion of thing-ness again goes to the Kantian discourse
embedded in MH's
phenomenology- the quality of the thing is that which is not to be
confused
with its representation - consequently until you determine the
thingness of
the thing in question- its qualities and attributes you may not give
representation to it - chair-ness what makes something a chair -
inversely if
you confuse the thing with its representation - a picture is not a
chair - you
may never come to know what thing is - you may never know what
makes a given
chair a chair
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Sent: Monday, April 20, 2009 11:48 AM
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Subject: Heidegger and thingness
Has anyone here ever thought much about "thingness" ?
This is something important for Heidegger -- but it still is just a
mere
pronoun for me (which is how I've just used it).
It seems as if M.H. wants us first to consider the "thingness" of a
work of
art, so that we can eventually "decide whether the work is at bottom
something
else and not a thing at all" (and how's that for a paradox!)
Did anyone find M.H.'s discussion of this topic especially
enlightening?
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