Julian Holmes Wilson Phil 207 Roger Bell Final Paper 12/8/11 Propriating the Forma We are finally

y on our way to language, or possibly I am on my way to language, for I cannot speak for the rest of the class. I cannot fully describe the ways that Heidegger has influenced me in this semester for it is vastly obtuse and yet so clear to my own sense of being. In the course of reading the Basic Writings I have been greatly influenced in my thought and relationship with language. He has led me in new directions for my thesis, but also simply the way I view the world. I never expected to be influenced in such an abstract manner and yet that is exactly how I feel. My mood has changed and my ability to decipher his concepts has moved away from logic and towards intuition; though, I cannot discount his deconstructive nature to language which has a very logical path in understanding new ways of thought. It is also in his ability to use language and create words (mostly due to the adaptive nature of the German language) that allows him to describe things in intuitive understanding. This is where I turn to the word propriation, for its essence feels so true and useable in our language and yet it is a word that does not gain its definition by way of logic but rather intuition. The way that I perceive propriation is both in means of appropriation, but also procreation. It is in this understanding that I feel the word finally starts to hold meaning. Heidegger is clearly influenced by way of the Catholic Church and as noted in his biography, it appears that he was on a mission to find a god. This is the nature that I believe his writing was coming from when he was contemplating Being and Time. It is in his distinction of Dasien coming out from the nothing, this coming out being the gods force or possibly god himself, that is showing all of his future thought. Just as Dasien propriates out of the nothing, so does language propriate out of the propriation of being. It is becoming clearer to me that propriate is related to procreate in the way of creating new forms and related to appropriate in taking your own suitable meaning of this created form. This is why Heidegger and Krell are able to use propriate as a noun and a verb, for it contains so much hidden connotation. So the question becomes, how can one become propriated and have I done so in way of reading Heidegger? It can be said that we all are propriated into existence, but it is far more important to understand that the propriation does not stop at the beginning, but is rather the way-making movement towards language, meaning that through language you are able to appropriate new worldings. It is your way of movement through space and time. If we did not have language we would have nothing, for what is a life without a way to describe its essence to your friend (friend being used in the broadest sense; one that takes your worlding). So then in this sense I have become propriated by Heidegger to a great extent. He has allowed me to understand this phenomenon in a completely new way, with new words and language that correctly engage my mind in its ability to own such a worlding. He has revealed the clearing of the way to language.

I finally understand how language is a technology. While Heidegger may not have made this claim directly, but rather through conclusion in our class discussion, it is still through the essence of Heideggers world that we were able to come to such claims. I believe that this conclusion comes out of Heideggers understanding of thinking as a manual skill. It is through handiness that one comes too thought through the use of language. Thus, language is a tool, and tools are technology. I find this notion of language fascinating as it finally puts us into a process of mastery. Just as it takes time to master the power of a hammer or the intricacies of a musical instrument, one has to master the potential of language. Within this ability to master language we are able to build up our dwelling of thinking through the propriation of language. I feel that the concept of building is related to the building of words and sentences and the dwelling is the ability to house other people within your built words, or in other words, to share the words with others. Dasien beings are thus able to reside within the clearings of these language dwellings. This is what I believe he means by our sayings always being an answering, for the saying is the building and the answering is the dwelling of others within our language. It is through the wefting of language that we are able to see that it is a dance, it is a writing of poetry, it is the flow of a river; this is the way that we need to relate to language in order to understand its power. Heidegger wants us to understand the odd nature of language, how it comes out of us in such a fluid nature without really understanding the manifestation until it comes upon us. It is through reading the forma to bring language as language to language in a fluid nature that makes us entangled in itself. We are entangled because we are not yet awakened to this transformation of language. We finally see on page 425 the transformation that Heidegger is envisioning. Every thinking that is on the trail of something is a poetizing, and all poetry a thinking. Each coheres with the other on the basis of the saying that has already pledged itself to the unsaid, the saying whose thinking is a thanking. This appears to be a complex phenomenological way of looking at the transformation of language; however, I believe that Heidegger is arguing that it is a far more natural form if there is ever to be a natural language. What this allows us to do with language is adapt it in fluid ways, to think in new adaptive forms of language. Just as the organism procreates to survive, our language propriates within us to strive. This is what will allow language itself to bring us to the revelation that to bring language to language as language propriates the being of Being by way of Dasein. And so it is clear to me that my relation to language has vastly changed, as the last sentence of my last paragraph I would have taken as gibberish before reading Heidegger, but now there is this intuitive meaning that breaks through my being and has created a strange clearing in my ability to write and philosophize. It is my new beginning into the world of language, and thus I am quite clearly on my way to language. Just as Heidegger is invested in the need for gleaning new meaning, I have been influenced to do the same to his own words. I have never felt so free to speak my sayings and have it feel so full of essence. This is the feeling that I take to be Heideggers notion of Propriation propriates human beings for itself, propriates them into usage. I am showing my owning and thus I must be propriating my propriation. I have found languages answering for my own thinking. I will dwell in the building of the propriation of my language and further I hope others will dwell with me and my worldings.