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DESCRIPTION:<div style="font-family: arial\,sans-serif\;" class="gmail_quot
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 rested.\n<br><div>\n<div>You are hereby invited to our fourth\ninterdiscipl
 inary series on <a href="http://ecco.vub.ac.be/drupal/"; target="_blank"><b>
 Evolution\, Complexity and Cognition</b></a>:</div>\n<div><br></div>\n<div>
 <b>When?</b></div>\n<div>Next Thursday\, Mar. 20\, 2008\, <span style="colo
 r: rgb(255\, 0\, 0)\;">3<span style="color: rgb(0\, 0\, 0)\;">-5 </span></s
 pan>pm. Please note that the seminar will be at <span style="color: rgb(255
 \, 0\, 0)\;">3pm instead of 2pm. </span><br></div>\n<div>&nbsp\;<br>\n<b>Wh
 ere?</b></div>\n<div>The seminar room is B 0.036 (building B\, level 0\, cl
 ose to the\nhuman sciences computer rooms)\, on the VUB Campus Etterbeek. C
 offee\nand drinks are available. Free entrance: everybody welcome!</div>\n<
 div><font color="#000000" size="-1"><br></font></div>\n<div><font color="#0
 00000" size="-1"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: center\;"><font c
 olor="#000000"><font size="+1"><b>Rationality on the basis of the Heidegger
 -Cassirer opposition</b></font></font></div>\n\n\n<div align="center"><font
  color="#000000" size="+1"><b><br></b></font></div>\n<div align="center"><b
 >Wim Christiaens<br></b></div>\n<div align="center">(Universiteit Gent)</di
 v>\n<div align="center"><font color="#000000" size="-1"><br></font></div>\n
 \n<div><font color="#000000" size="-1"><b>Abstract</b></font></div><br>\nDu
 ring the interbellum Ernst Cassirer and Martin Heidegger took a stance with
  respect to rationality and rejected metaphysics. The latter was looking fo
 r something lying beyond the reach of rationality\, an originary Unverborge
 nheit of the being of beings. Cassirer wanted to stay true to the Enlighten
 ment ideals and tried to transform and diversify the notion of rationality 
 to such an extent that on the one hand it could even incorporate myth as a 
 rationality in its own right\, but at the same time it could only incorpora
 te myth to the extent that it was a form of rationality. According to Heide
 gger Cassirer can not be said to have left metaphysics behind\; at the same
  time Heidegger's opposition to metaphysics is meant to free the question o
 f being from rationality and the domination of one specific entity (e.g. Go
 d) or kinds of entities (e.g. materialism). Taking this anti-correlation be
 tween two great thinkers as a paradigm case I will try to present a positio
 n with respect to rationality and metaphysics in which rationality and the 
 Verborgenheit-Unverborgenheit of the being of beings are entangled in such 
 a way that rationality is not so much the enemy of "spirituality"\, but the
  condition of possibility for its authenticity. An inspiration for this sta
 nce remains the thought of Leo Apostel where a deep commitment to the value
 s of the Enlightment go together with the authentic practice of a non-theis
 tic spirituality.<div><font color="#000000" size="-1">\n</font><font size="
 2"><b><span style="font-size: 12pt\;" lang="EN-US"></span></b></font><div>\
 n\n\n<br><b>Upcoming speakers:</b><br>Mixel Kiemen\, Øyvind Vada\, Bernard 
 Goossens<br></div></div>\n<div><br></div>\n<div><b>More informations about 
 the ECCO seminars:</b></div>\n<div>See <a href="http://ecco.vub.ac.be/drupa
 l/?q=node/28" target="_blank">http://ecco.vub.ac.be/drupal/<wbr>?q=node/28<
 /a> for the full\nprogram.<br><br>Best regards\,<br></div>\n</div></div><sp
 an style="font-family: arial\,sans-serif\;"></span>Clément Vidal.<br>______
 ________________________<wbr>__________<br><a href="http://clement.vidal.ph
 ilosophons.com" target="_blank">http://clement.vidal.philosopho<wbr>ns.com<
 /a> <br>\nCentrum Leo Apostel\, Vrije Universiteit Brussel<br>Krijgskundest
 raat 33. B-1160 Brussels\, Belgium <br>Tel: +32 2 640 67 37 | Fax: +32 2 64
 4 07 44\n\nView your event at http://www.google.com/calendar/event?action=V
 IEW&ueid=csc89q5qu85glpaqf6qud5tk8s.
LAST-MODIFIED:20080318T111913Z
LOCATION:B 0.036 (building B\, level 0\, close to the human sciences comput
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SEQUENCE:0
STATUS:CONFIRMED
SUMMARY:ECCO Seminar - Wim Christiaens. Rationality on the basis of the Hei
 degger-Cassirer opposition
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