follow-up

The simple act of holding that there is (or may be) something outside human experience that poses obstructions to human will… This may free you of the charge of absolute idealism. But you’ll still be a correlationist as long as it’s wholly a story of human and world. As long as you take the human-world relation as the pillar of all other relations, you are a correlationist.

Example: when Heidegger says that Being itself is responsible for history, not Dasein, this does not take Dasein out of the center of the picture. For it still remains nothing but a question of how Being manifests itself to Dasein.

Imagine a sadomasochistic relationship between two people, and we’ll label those people “Sein” and “Dasein”. Sometimes Sein is the aggressor, and sometimes it’s Dasein. But these shifts between active and passive don’t really change much: it’s still the same relationship between the same two people. Fresh air is needed.