Hegel & The Irony
What we are talking about here is an _invisible_ _background._ The most important message is the medium itself. It is the authoritative _pose_ itself that tends to remain invisible and unthought.
In our earnest questioning in the pursuit of the Truth-For-All, we forget to question this questioning itself. We have _assumed_ both the existence of this truth-for-all and the nobility of pursuing it. Our actions betray these implicit assumptions. This is the "first wrong move," which is only "wrong" in its blindness and according to its own implicit standards.
The philosopher is, ideally, a skeptic or a critical mind. But as philosopher (or as an earnest metaphysician) he is constituted by an unchallenged belief --that his thinking is and ought to be universal. This is Spengler's "ethical socialism" as opposed to "confession."
By _confession_ I mean the confession of faith _as_ faith or the presentation of one's beliefs in the context of their ultimate groundlessness.
>The nothingness before which angst brings us reveals the nullity that determines Dasein in its ground, which itself _is_ as thrownness into death.
I speak from the "I" or authentically when I speak with and from an awareness of my groundlessness. I speak inauthentically when I speak "in the name of" or _as_ the "father" who _covers_ _up_ this nothingness. A "objective system" is a film stretched over the abyss. Systems are of the "they." _One_ has a system.
An actual scientist knows how to measure, predict, move entities around in the world. The metaphysician is a pseudo-scientist wrapping religion in a rational terminology. His own justification or negation of the abyss works only to the degree that he perceives it as a _universal_ justification. His fundamental mission to speak the transpersonal truth. _Which_ truth is utterly secondary. Particular truth candidates are the message. The metaphysician as virtuous human is the medium, the receding _essence_ of the situation.
This role only becomes contingent-first-person and therefore optional once it has been recognized. But recognition and negation are one and the same process. Recognition is a distancing. We no longer are what we know ourselves to be. What we deeply are is invisible to ourselves.
Who am I? What am I playing at? If not as earnest metaphysics or truth-telling? Ironism is born from earnest truth-telling. Spirit is born from and _includes_ agency. My idiosyncratic vision is offered up, self-subverting, anti-systematic, as a post-philosophical poem. Hegel is engulfed by the irony he thought himself to have engulfed.
http://dar.aucegypt.edu/bitstream/handle/10526/3640/harman-1.pdf?sequence=1
In our earnest questioning in the pursuit of the Truth-For-All, we forget to question this questioning itself. We have _assumed_ both the existence of this truth-for-all and the nobility of pursuing it. Our actions betray these implicit assumptions. This is the "first wrong move," which is only "wrong" in its blindness and according to its own implicit standards.
The philosopher is, ideally, a skeptic or a critical mind. But as philosopher (or as an earnest metaphysician) he is constituted by an unchallenged belief --that his thinking is and ought to be universal. This is Spengler's "ethical socialism" as opposed to "confession."
By _confession_ I mean the confession of faith _as_ faith or the presentation of one's beliefs in the context of their ultimate groundlessness.
>The nothingness before which angst brings us reveals the nullity that determines Dasein in its ground, which itself _is_ as thrownness into death.
I speak from the "I" or authentically when I speak with and from an awareness of my groundlessness. I speak inauthentically when I speak "in the name of" or _as_ the "father" who _covers_ _up_ this nothingness. A "objective system" is a film stretched over the abyss. Systems are of the "they." _One_ has a system.
An actual scientist knows how to measure, predict, move entities around in the world. The metaphysician is a pseudo-scientist wrapping religion in a rational terminology. His own justification or negation of the abyss works only to the degree that he perceives it as a _universal_ justification. His fundamental mission to speak the transpersonal truth. _Which_ truth is utterly secondary. Particular truth candidates are the message. The metaphysician as virtuous human is the medium, the receding _essence_ of the situation.
This role only becomes contingent-first-person and therefore optional once it has been recognized. But recognition and negation are one and the same process. Recognition is a distancing. We no longer are what we know ourselves to be. What we deeply are is invisible to ourselves.
Who am I? What am I playing at? If not as earnest metaphysics or truth-telling? Ironism is born from earnest truth-telling. Spirit is born from and _includes_ agency. My idiosyncratic vision is offered up, self-subverting, anti-systematic, as a post-philosophical poem. Hegel is engulfed by the irony he thought himself to have engulfed.
http://dar.aucegypt.edu/bitstream/handle/10526/3640/harman-1.pdf?sequence=1
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