[lit-ideas] Re: On Weltanschauungs, crackerbarrel and otherwise
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 13:26:31 -0330
At least as concerns the early H's transcendental-phenomenological work, the
interpretation below is quite misrepresentative as it foists much too much of
an Aristotelian view on an account that attempts an ontology of Dasein - an
ontology that moves beyond empirical anthropology, by definition. It's as if
one were reading H through a misreading of Gadamer that was innocent of G's
distinction between an ontology of tradition and communitarian conceptions of
self-other relations.
Walter O
MUN
Quoting Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Geary writes, "Every human being is contaminated with some crackerbarrel
> Weltanschauung. That's what Dasein is all about."
>
> That seems unnecessarily harsh. Here is Julian Young putting the matter
> into terms Heidegger would probably be willing to accept:
>
> "Heidegger's view of the relation between tradition and the self is deeply
> influenced by Hegel's 'communitarian' understanding of the relation between
> identity and morality in the sense of 'custom' or Sittlichkeit. It is
> interesting to observe an almost perfect agreement between Heidegger and the
> British Hegelian, F. H. Bradley:
>
> 'the child . . . is born . . . into a living world . . . He does not even
> think of his separate self; he grows with his world, his mind fills and
> orders itself; and when he can separate himself from that world, and know
> himself apart from it, then by that time his self, the object of his self
> consciousness, is penetrated, infected, characterized by the existence of
> others. Its content implies, in every fibre, relations of community. He
> learns, or already perhaps has learnt, to speak, and here he appropriates
> the common heritage of his race, the tongue that he makes his own is his
> country's language, it is . . . the same the others speak, and it carries
> into his mind the ideas and sentiments of the race . . . and stamps them
> indelibly. He grows up in an atmosphere of example and general custom . . .
> The soul within him is saturated, is filled, is qualified by, it has
> assimilated, has got its substance, has built itself up from, it is one and
> the same life with the universal life, and if he turns against this he turns
> against himself."
>
> Lawrence
>
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