NOTHING
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2020 11:16 am
Nothing: Some notes taken from Heidegger's What is Metaphysics? (apologies xe2x80x93 my bad summary)
The proper study of a subject is a Science. Each science is specific.
It studies its subject and nothing else.
What this nothing is, it ignores.
Yet when it seeks its essence, what it is, it needs this nothing, what it is not.
So.
What is this nothing?
The above question deprives itself of its 'Nothing'
The IS (BEING, THING-ING) deprives the NOTHING.
Thinking is always about something. How then can we think about nothing.
This is logical, must this logic stop us?
Well logic uses negation!
Is nothing part of logic's negation? Or is negation part of this nothing.
Premise: Nothing is more 'original', foundational than negation.
Then this nothing is essential to logic's negation.
If we question this nothing, we must be able to encounter it.
xe2x80x9cNothing is the complete negation of the totality of beings.xe2x80x9d
How then can we know this nothing if we cannot know this complete totality of beings?
The totality of beings is the whole, undifferentiated A Unity.
Boredom. We can be bored with a thing.
We can be bored with everything, a profound boredom. Nothing can present itself as not being boring.
This boredom is bored with the Whole, the undifferentiated unity, the totality if beings. (things).
This totality conceals the nothing we seek.
Can we experience this nothing in the face of this experience of the whole.
Yes xe2x80x93 in profound anxiety.
Anxiety with what, in particular.
With nothing in particular, with nothing, with anxiety of the whole.
This reveals the nothing.
In profound anxiety we experience the nothing.
This doesn't annihilate being as a whole.
This nothing annihilates itself, we experience this, and so it reveals fully beings as such.
Beings as such not from our perspective but from the perspective of nothing.
Beings as they are - strange xe2x80x93 different....
Only from this ground of nothing can we see the essence of being.
To BE, is to be held over into this nothing. To be there, Dasein. Authentic 'Being'.
This is transcendence, to be above all.
The revelation of nothing = no selfhood, but experience of nothing and so of freedom.
This opening of being to nothing is rare.
We normally bother with trivial particulars day to day.
Superficial.
Nothing then permeates metaphysics, and metaphysics is the knowing of the underlying and foundation of reality.
The proper study of a subject is a Science. Each science is specific.
It studies its subject and nothing else.
What this nothing is, it ignores.
Yet when it seeks its essence, what it is, it needs this nothing, what it is not.
So.
What is this nothing?
The above question deprives itself of its 'Nothing'
The IS (BEING, THING-ING) deprives the NOTHING.
Thinking is always about something. How then can we think about nothing.
This is logical, must this logic stop us?
Well logic uses negation!
Is nothing part of logic's negation? Or is negation part of this nothing.
Premise: Nothing is more 'original', foundational than negation.
Then this nothing is essential to logic's negation.
If we question this nothing, we must be able to encounter it.
xe2x80x9cNothing is the complete negation of the totality of beings.xe2x80x9d
How then can we know this nothing if we cannot know this complete totality of beings?
The totality of beings is the whole, undifferentiated A Unity.
Boredom. We can be bored with a thing.
We can be bored with everything, a profound boredom. Nothing can present itself as not being boring.
This boredom is bored with the Whole, the undifferentiated unity, the totality if beings. (things).
This totality conceals the nothing we seek.
Can we experience this nothing in the face of this experience of the whole.
Yes xe2x80x93 in profound anxiety.
Anxiety with what, in particular.
With nothing in particular, with nothing, with anxiety of the whole.
This reveals the nothing.
In profound anxiety we experience the nothing.
This doesn't annihilate being as a whole.
This nothing annihilates itself, we experience this, and so it reveals fully beings as such.
Beings as such not from our perspective but from the perspective of nothing.
Beings as they are - strange xe2x80x93 different....
Only from this ground of nothing can we see the essence of being.
To BE, is to be held over into this nothing. To be there, Dasein. Authentic 'Being'.
This is transcendence, to be above all.
The revelation of nothing = no selfhood, but experience of nothing and so of freedom.
This opening of being to nothing is rare.
We normally bother with trivial particulars day to day.
Superficial.
Nothing then permeates metaphysics, and metaphysics is the knowing of the underlying and foundation of reality.