The first part of your question is an unnatural state. If we want compare taste of all ripe apples we have to eat all of them. Boris Shoshensky
---------- Original Message ---------- From: armando baeza <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Cc: armando baeza <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Heidegger and thingness Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 23:13:56 -0700 Lets assume that all apples are alike, and taste a little different and ripe. which one is the best ? mando On Apr 21, 2009, at 10:39 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Lets assume we all like apples. We have apple tree with some fruits > which are > not ripe yet, ripe just right and already rotten. > We have three choices: picking all kinds, no kind or only the best > with the most goodness for the body. What is the best practical > decision to > make ? Picking and choosing. > Boris Shoshensky > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: Heidegger and thingness > Date: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:12:53 GMT > > There would seem to be three possible responses to an ideology: > subscription, > rejection, and selection (i.e. picking and choosing favorable > elements). > > Regarding the one under discussion (call it German Idealism?) -- > here's how > our group seems to be sorting out: > > *subscription: (Saul, Luc) > *rejection: (Cheerskep, Mando, Miller) > *picking and choosing: William, Boris, Kate > > In response the query that began this thread, it's interesting that > even Saul > did not find M.H.'s discussion of thingness to be especially > enlightening. > (i.e. -- it's just Kantian discourse embedded in MH's phenomenology). > > I suppose there's no point in arguing matters of faith -- either you > subscribe > to Kantian discourse, or you don't -- but I do think that the > middle ground > is > very problematic - since it's an essentialist program -- and if you're > rejecting the essentials, you're rejecting the whole thing. > > And there have been some rather catastrophic consequences when > branches of > this discourse, Marxism and Fascism, were adopted by totalitarian > regimes in > the previous century. > > (regarding the dire consequences of German idealism in the artworld, I > suppose > that's just a matter of taste) > > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Click here to find the perfect picture with our powerful photo search > features. > http://thirdpartyoffers.netzero.net/TGL2241/fc/ > BLSrjpYR2bn8HYzF4jDIQ2iilmvVZw > tQQXC4FOKb9pXQV5FqX33Nz58Kxbi/
