Mark Linsenmayer's latest blog post compares Heidegger's "Being" to Pirsig's "Quality".
"So 'humanism,' which Heidegger identifies as a Roman invention that oversimplified Greek philosophy, actually doesn’t grant humanity enough dignity for Heidegger’s taste. Humanism locates the source of value in us, whereas Heidegger thinks that consideration of Being is prior, again, to any such particular thoughts about our practical characteristics (e.g. virtues or animalistic qualities). In particular, it is prior (in much the way Pirsig described 'Quality') to the subject-object distinction which, Heidegger thinks, actually dehumanizes us by making the internal, subjective, spiritual side of us so pale and circumscribed compared to the public, objective, material part of experience." I think they have a similar view of language as well... "For Heidegger, it’s language itself that is the 'house of Being,' that enables the poet or philosopher, through careful uses of it (and real thinking, which amounts to the same thing), to be a 'guardian' of this house." You can read the whole thing here: http://www.partiallyexaminedlife.com/2013/07/14/topic80-heidegger/ Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
