tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post113389685722859087..comments2023-06-27T16:51:05.805+02:00Comments on The Pangrammaticon: On EreignisThomashttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1134170196383263532005-12-10T00:16:00.000+01:002005-12-10T00:16:00.000+01:00By the way, in an upcoming Ereignis Interview, Ric...By the way, in an upcoming Ereignis Interview, Richard Polt explains why Ereignis should be understood as an "event".enowninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287486840371546648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1133978334492772912005-12-07T18:58:00.000+01:002005-12-07T18:58:00.000+01:00I suppose one of my questions is: what word would ...I suppose one of my questions is: what word would he have settled on if he were writing in English. Is there are word for "what makes beings possible"? The event, it seems to me is perfectly fine as far as it goes. Ereignis can't possibly be more apt, and its association to other words (naming ordinary happenings, occurences and incidents) is part of its metaphysical import.<BR/><BR/>But I'll think on it some more.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1133975196512034882005-12-07T18:06:00.000+01:002005-12-07T18:06:00.000+01:00I don't know why Heidegger made the decisions he m...I don't know why Heidegger made the decisions he made, but through-out his career he went through over a dozen different words and phrases for his insight. "Die Wahrheit des Seins selbst" was one of them, the Da in Dasein (or there in there-being, if you will) another. Some argue that thrown-ness in Being and Time is another. We now have access to many of his private notes and know that settled on using Ereignis for his own notes in the mid-30s. But he reserved its public use. He describes what he means by Ereignis briefly in one of the essays in Identity and Language, but it is only in Time and Being in the 1960s, essentially his last major text, that he comes out and say explicitly that Ereignis is his preferred term for the answer to the question of what makes beings possible.enowninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287486840371546648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1133953915685338612005-12-07T12:11:00.000+01:002005-12-07T12:11:00.000+01:00Or, rather, why did he write both "die Wahrheit de...Or, rather, why did he write <I>both</I> "die Wahrheit des Seins dem Menschenwesen" <I>and</I> "Ereignis"?Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1133947157368854042005-12-07T10:19:00.000+01:002005-12-07T10:19:00.000+01:00But why did Heidegger not write "die Wahrheit des ...But why did Heidegger not write "die Wahrheit des Seins selbst" then?<BR/><BR/>It's not that I want to make him an authority, just that some effort should be made to preserve an importation connotation of Ereignis even in its metaphysical sense. I want to preserve (in English), as you put it, the fact that Ereignis <I>happens</I> or is otherwise part of what is going on.<BR/><BR/>The Lovitt's translation of "The Turning", for example, the reader doesn't háve a chance.Thomashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04858865501469168339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1133919877962591102005-12-07T02:44:00.000+01:002005-12-07T02:44:00.000+01:00If Ereignis stands for event as such, then it shou...If Ereignis stands for event as such, then it should be translated. It's only when Ereignis stands for die Wahrheit des Seins selbst that it's misleading to translate it with event.enowninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287486840371546648noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861197.post-1133919793187096732005-12-07T02:43:00.000+01:002005-12-07T02:43:00.000+01:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.enowninghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12287486840371546648noreply@blogger.com