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'An aphorism, properly stamped and molded, has not been "deciphered" when it has simply been read; rather one has then to begin its interpretation, for which is required an art of interpretation.' -- Nietzsche, 'On the Genealogy of Morals'

Heidegger's ethical current « Previous | |Next »
September 15, 2006

In Chapter 5 of his thesis Robert Tulip says that there'is a definite ambiguity, if not a real lack of consistency, in the relation between the ethical dimension of his thought and his denial of the significance of ethics for his ontology as a whole.'

He locates the ethical undercurrent in Heidegger's texts as a response Nietzsche's understanding of nihilism as the emptying out of the values of society. Tulip says that with the traumatic and meaningless situation of the collapse of everything previous thought had relied on, it had become essential to begin anew to establish a phenomenal ground for meaning. Only by genuinely confronting indisputable truths, such as pain, death and love, can we break free from destitution and start to again become "capable of our own mortality". Tulip says:

With this last statement, the ethical message implicit in his ontology starts to break out of the restraints he has placed around it. The disclosure of pain, death and love, the hardest truths of life, is only possible on the basis of a resolute authenticity which is at once caring, open and true to itself. An important factor for the development of a possible ethical meaning for Heidegger's ideas is thus that becoming "capable of mortality", in all its anguish and limitation, is an essential precondition for authenticity.

Consequently, as Tulip points out, Heidegger's 'grounding of ontology in existence, although presented as purely ontological, actually establishes a relation which is ethical in essence, because taking it seriously effects a transformation in our conduct, away from the false values of both metaphysics and ignorance, towards the authentic values of truth, care and openness.'

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 11:33 PM | | Comments (2)
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there are some baboons down the road, I call them that to focus on their near 'non-human' behaviour, which is of course all too human, I call them baboons to distance myself from their bogan like existence, though bogans don't really describe these Tasmanians who were generationally welfare dependent before there was any such thing as welfare, I call them baboons because they get no omega threes in their diet (which can cure %50 of HDD diagnosed kiddies) they are babboons because they look for (inter)action and do it by stealing my three year old's tricycle, stealing and burning cars, addicted to adrenalin their lives are empty, they fill it with theft (they have stolen some $10 000 worth of gear alone from the dozen neighbours I live with but do they drive mercedes?) and self-hatred, they seek control and when challenged will call it love, but they hate themselves, their lives are mean, squalid despite the resources they steal, and despite our losses our lives are not squalid, we need no escape, and they cannot escape the baboon troop they choose to associate with

the police blocked the road the other day, second time in the last fortnight that cul-de-sac with that house with its ute with its tray loaded up with stolen bicycle frames the police can do nothing about

something about threatening to, and guns, police can do something about guns

bogans are true artists, their lives are art, dramatic, dickensian, i was a bogan once, grew up in Launceston, all my friends wore ugg boots and fleecy checked shirts, and now snobs tell me I am part of the elite, some aren't allowed to be aspirational, because its a word with too many syllables, I don't won't to live with these baboons but they have to live somewhere, and without due process there is no rule of law, and therefore there is no civilisation, lynch mobs might be economic with the truth but they feel as if somethign gets done, which is much the way the baboons live with their alpha males and submissive moles, and their abusive behaviour towards each other and I wish omega threes could cure them but its basically a life style choice, constrained as it is by the choices of their grandparents self-loathing, not to mention the drug fucked parents, and even if I saw my three years old's tricycle at 7am in the yard of that house with the bombed out ute with its tray full of bicycle parts and what not and everyone knows these Ikey Solomon Fagans (who once lived in Hobart) pays the urchins in cigarettes for the stuff they steal, impoversihed? They have more stuff on their front lawn (ignoring the ute in the backyard) than my children have ever seen, but they are the self-serving heart-dead poor, but its all protected by very ugly dogs and the whole place smells of composting dog food and then i read

"Only by genuinely confronting indisputable truths, such as pain, death and love, can we break free from destitution and start to again become capable of our own mortality"

and I think

yeah right, now how do we tell them that, or will the omega threes fix 'em

its 7am and as I walked slowly across the road, in the same period of time the baboon child opens up the bonnet of the commodore and slams it, opens the passenger door and slams it, opens the drivers door and gets in and beeeeeeeeeeeps the horn and gets out and slams that door too

a baboon needed attention from parents probably still comatoses from bourbon and dope, breakfast even, with omega threes?? i hope

can i do anything?

the ugly dogs arrive and charge me

my three year old is very sad at the loss of her tricycle

Dear Gary

A pleasant surprise indeed to find some conversation on my ideas. Heidegger was the most honest philosopher, but confined within tragic limits.

I suggest now, the challenge, with Jung, is to engage the unlimited.

Robert Tulip