Beilage VIII: Problem: Generativity
- Birth and Death as Processes for World-Constitution <Beginning of the
1930's>
It must be
shown that birth and death must be valid as constitutive events for the
enabling of world-constitution - or must be valid as essential parts of a
constituted world, in other words, generativity with
birth and death. In the structure of the
achievement of empathy as empathy towards Others and myself among Others, I at
first know alien actual and possible experience as a manner of presentification, which has ontic
validity, and a modification over and against my primordial-original
experience.
So long as
"alien" memory is in coincidence with possible memories of my own, so
long as my memory only has the limit of forgetting, so long as my incapacity of
memory is sheer forgetfulness, so long as at the same time the potentiality of
remembering what has been forgotten remains open, so long is the constitution
of the world not finished. That would
only be so if generativity, with birth and death,
were a contingent world-fact.
Empathy
originally gives only the Others, and eventually the Others with experiences,
actual and possible, which I similarly in part have or could have, could have
had etc. Its memory of the past reached
further than I can understand [immediately], but insofar as I understand
empathetically, it has for me a meaning which does not exclude the fact that
the memories are or were possible for me.
Thus it is also with the actual or possible entrance of Others in my
circle of experience in the future; there are Others whom I will or could
experience: my "human" being among humans is my perspective and
certain ontological coming together with them as Others. Now, however, something new enters into the
experience of this stage as meaning-forming for humans and the world - death and birth.
The future certainty of one's own being as a human being living in the
world among other human beings and of the being of the Others receives an
unsurpassable limit and hence correlatively the memorial certainty of human
past-being and humans in world-life.
However now
world and birth and death (thus generativity) must be
posited in essential relationship in all earnestness, and exhibited insofar as
they are not a fact, insofar as a world and humanity without birth and death
are unthinkable.
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