[lit-ideas] Finger-in-the-World
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 13:55:23 EDT
`Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world
to the scratching of my finger'
-- David Hume -- Treatise on Human Nature (ed. Selby-Bigge, p. 416).
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This strikes me as anti-Heideggerian.
Heidegger, it is well known, thought that most western metaphysics was
misguided. It lacked 'the concept of the 'sein-in-der-welt' (to be in the
world).
Mutatis mutandis:
'Tis not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction
of the whole world to the scracthing of my (i.e. Hume's) finger
--- BUT: the finger is part of the world.
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Therefore: it IS contrary to reason.
Speranza -- Bordighera
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