Hi Dan,
The philosophy of time (and space for that matter) is still unresolved. I
agree with Bergson that time is an illusion. His notion of mathematical
(real or true) time coincides with current views in physics, namely that
time has no ontological status but is a relation, a measurement of change.
We experience change and the alterations in our consciousness are measured
in arbitrary time units. My reading of H does not entail an equivalence of
being and time, merely that the potential for change is the ground for
authenticity. This is getting addicting. Time for work.
Regards, Richard
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From: "Shaw, Dan" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2003 5:29 PM
Subject: FW: Being is Time
> Dan
>
> "For beauty is the beginning of terror that we are still able to bear, and
why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us." Rilke's
First Elegy
>
> Just to expand on what Joseph was saying, like many of the great
philosophical classics that are entitled "X & Y" (Appearance and Reality,
Process and Reality, Being and Nothingness), and really mean "X is Y", Being
is Time for Heidegger, in that it is because we have a future that we can
project possibilities into, and strive with all our might to realize them
(shaping the world in our image in the process) that our existence can have
meaning. Our past makes our choices in the present meaningful as well, by
grounding our priorities in more that simple randomness. And we are called
to be who we authentically are in the process.
>
> Now, Susanna was right that one can be authentically a Nazi, but that
is a problem only if you expect existentialism to generate an objective
hierarchy of moral values...which it never claimed to be able to do.
>
> Dan
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