Thursday, August 27, 2020

Guest typecast by Martin Heidegger



"What is truest is if seeming and nonbeing is taken into truth and being."

—From the conclusion of Herbert Marcuse's typed transcript of
Martin Heidegger's 1930-31 seminar on
Plato's Parmenides

7 comments:

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    Hmm, jedoch - es wird erst real, wenn die Typhebel das Papier so richtig berühren :-)

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    1. Ist das Bildschirm also irreal?

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    2. Das ist eine Frage! Vielliecht schon. Die 'echtheit' vom Papier ist sicherlich teil des Schreibmaschinen's Anziehungskraft. Ein kleines Zettel oder Brief erfahrt mann doch anders als ein Email.

      Sogar im objectiver Realität gibt es verschiedene Echtheitsstufen - hatte da noch nicht druber nachgedacht ... :)

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    1. It's a part of reality—requiring interpretation, but not opposed to truth.

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    2. but do we make it truth through sheer willingness to believe?

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    3. I wouldn't say so. That would be a misguided way of "taking it in." There are two primary errors, then: either simply insisting that appearances are reality, or rejecting them as utterly unconnected to reality.

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