Observations

I am reading a book on metaphysics by Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher. Metaphysics tries to shed light on the relationship between “being” and “non-being”. Since Plato and Aristotle the human race has been struggling to identify what “non-being” is. It has to exist. What is it?

Eventually humankind resolved the issue by identifying “non-being” with many gods or just one. It seems that the Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition is an evolution of Greek mythology when gods and humans mingled together and the gods told humans what to do and how to behave. Of course, the relationship with the gods was a human interpretation of what the gods said this relationship should be. This is a difficult proposition to accept. The problem with these interpretations is that there are many and often conflicting ones.

Oriental philosophies, dating back to 3000-5000 BC, on the other hand, resolved the issue by recognizing that the challenge for humanity is a matter of behavior. They provided guidelines and philosophical concepts to identify the behavior that would give individuals internal peace. Only then would they understand the meaning of “being” and “non-being”. Only then will the two concepts merge into one.

(This Observations appeared in the 7/29/02 of The Peter Dag Portfolio)

George Dagnino, PhD
Editor, The Peter Dag Portfolio. Since 1977
2009 Market Timer of the Year by Timer Digest

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