-regards, erik
Op 12-jun-97 schreef Ingrid Markhardt:
>Something to throw into the pot, partially in response to George's request
for
>a
>contemporary example, partially to Leonardo Raggo's post of June 7, and the
>current discussion of the being/becoming continuum, the implication that
truth
>has no being, there is only becoming, "fictioning" . . .
>
>from Heidegger's _Introduction to Metaphysics_:
>
>"A painting by Van Gogh. A pair of rough peasant shoes, nothing else.
>Actually
>the painting represents nothing. But as to what _is_ in that picture, you
are
>immediately alone with it as though you yourself were making your way wearily
>homeward with your hoe on an evening in late fall after the last potato fires
>have died down. What _is_ here? The canvas? The brush strokes? The spots of
>color?
>
>"What in all these things we have just mentioned is the being of the essent?
>We
>run (or stand) around in the world with our silly subtleties and conceit.
But
>where in all this is being?
>
>"All the things we have named _are_ and yet--when we wish to apprehend being,
>it is always as though we were reaching into the void. The bring after which
>we inquire is almost like nothing, and yet we have always rejected the
>contention that the essent _is not_.
>
>"But being remains unfindable, almost like nothing, or ultimately _quite so_.
>Then, in the end, the word 'being' is no more than an empty word. It means
>nothing real, tangible, material. Its meaning is an unreal vapor. Thus in
>the
>last analysis Nietzsche was perfectly right in calling such 'highest
concepts'
>as being 'the last cloudy streak of evaporating reality.' Who would want to
>chase after such a vapor, when the very term is merely a name for a great
>fallacy! 'Nothing indeed has exercised a more simple power of persuasion
>hitherto than the error of being. . .'" [_The Twilight of the Idols_ 19, 22]
>
>(IM, 29)
>
>
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