Warm and fuzzy - Readings that make me smile (experience, dogma)

[angellous_evangellous]

Here are a few footnotes from a rough draft... I've been reading Gadamer and some of this stuff just makes me smile.

Heidegger convinces me that poetry is the best way humans have found to express the truth of human experience, and Gadamer provides dialogue as the next best step. Gadamer defeats the concept that a proposition has meaning in itself (there are always presuppositions that sustain it), and defines language as always in conversation, so dialogue must be the best way to discover what is hidden in language. The revision of Heidegger in this respect is abundantly obvious: one even has to dialogue with the poetry to deduce its meaning. However, poetry remains important in that thoughts can be expressed truthfully without being restrained by dogmatic forms of speech.Cf., Walter Lammi, "Hans-Georg Gadamer's 'Correction' of Heidegger," Journal of the History of Ideas 52, no. 3 (1991): 506. Cf., “[Heidegger] once interrupted himself when reading one of his essays to us and got quite impatient and said: ‘All of this is Chinese.’ And he was right, it was,” Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Historicism and Romanticism," in Hans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry, and History: Applied Hermeneutics, ed. Dieter Misgeld and Graeme Nicholson, trans. Lawrence Schmidt and Monica Ruess (Albany: State U of NY Press, 1992), 128.

[angellous_evangellous]

Nietzsche writes in Twilight of the Idols, 22, “I fear we shall never be rid of God, so long as we still believe in grammar,” The Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (18 vols, ed. O. Levy, Eng., London: Allen & Unwin, 1909-13).

[methylatedghosts]

How about -

“I fear we shall never be rid of God, so long as we still believe in Grandma,”

At least, that's how I read it first!

EDIT: and I must admit, it did bring a wee tear to my eye!