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- From: coonstot@quads.uchicago.edu (charles orville onstott)
- Subject: The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic
- Message-ID: <1993Jan9.205131.19435@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: University of Chicago Computing Organizations
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 20:51:31 GMT
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- This is an invitation to participate in an email reading group.
-
- I am interested in reading Heidegger's _The Metaphysical Foundations
- of Logic_("Logik").
-
- The cover description of the book is as follows:
-
- "Offering a full-scale study of the theory of reality
- hidden beneath modern logic, _The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic_,
- a lecture course given in 1928, illuminates the transitional phase
- in Heidegger's thought from the existential analysis of
- _Being and Time_ to the overcomming of metaphysics in his later
- philosophy. In a searching exposition of the metaphysical
- problems underpinning Leibniz's theory of logical judgment,
- Heidegger establishes that a given theory of logic is rooted
- in a certain conception of Being. He explores the
- significance of Western logic as a system-building technical tool
- and as a cultural pheomenon that is centuries old."
-
- Insofar as I am concerned, I will be approaching this text
- from a cultural angle. However, other approaches are encouraged.
- My agenda is to check the validity of the argumentation and
- assess the consequences on both a description of
- "modernity" and on autonomous theologies. However, other
- agendas are encouraged as long as validity is a part of it.
-
- If you are interested, please reply by email so that I can
- add you to the list. I will be mailing out the "reading assignments"
- in about 1 week along with the publication information.
-
- Thank You,
-
- Charles O. Onstott, III
-
- --
- Charles O. Onstott, III (coonstot@midway.uchicago.edu)
- Graduate Student in Religion and the Human Sciences
- The University of Chicago Divinity School
- "For [the study of] history, too, has its fashions." (Anouilh)
-