This passage of Heidegger has been rolling around in my head all day. It must be connected to something else I have on my mind. Lord willing, I will eventually figure out what that is.
Thirst for knowledge and greed for explanations never lead to a thinking inquiry. Curiosity is always the concealed arrogance of a self-consciousness that banks on a self-invented ratio and its rationality. The will to know does not will to abide in hope before what is worthy of thought. –“A Dialogue on Language”
I get a lot out of MH. ‘What is called Thinking?’ And alatheia + pre soc Gks
Me too. I have been thinking about this dialogue and about *What is Called Thinking* a good bit lately.
Thanks for your comment!
Now there’s ANOTHER who will have, who has, that passage percolating. The first startle is linking thirst with greed, as if our ‘pursuit of knowledge’ were a vice. Then curiosity gets unlinked from wonder, leaving us with the curiosity that killed the cat, and then rationality linked to the arrogance and falsity of invention. And then . . . then the wonderful resolution, that beyond the pit of self-importance that plagues philosophy there lies a kind of embraceable desire or wish or will for an apparently utterly different sort of knowledge-orientation, one that ‘abides’ (lives tenderly, perhaps in a paradise) in rising hope before something so very worthy of hope, attention, and meditation. His words carry us to that place and position, uplifted.
Thanks, Kelly, it’s a good morning already!
Glad it has had the same effect on others as it has had on me. Thanks, Ed!
have you read Jack Caputo’s book on de-mythologizing MH?
No, I haven’t. Tell me a bit about it?
he follows up on his research into the mystical elements at work in the background: http://books.google.com/books?id=p2uurmgvGrQC