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"Since the ordinary instrument of horsemanship is the spur, Frankish or High German, spor in Gaelic, is pronounced spur in English. Mallarme relates it to the verb to spurn, to disdain, to rebuff, to reject scornfully. There is a necessary historic and semantic operation from one language to the other evident in the fact that the English spur, is the same word as the German Spur: or, trace, wake, indication, mark. (Derrida, Spurs: Nietzsche's Styles) and that it is no manner of impediment or burden, the horse is not to be accounted the less of which will not do well without the spur, but rather the other is to be reckoned a delicacy than a virtue; so glory and honor are as spurs to virtue: and although virtue would languish without them, yet since they be always at hand to attend virtue, virtue is not to be said the less chosen for itself because it needeth the spur of fame and reputation."
Francis Bacon, The Colors of Good and Evil

The Way West

Are you Motivated?

"This is the sense of Wesen Heidegger has in mind. The 'in' of Dasein's being-in-the-world, must be understood from the old High German innan, to dwell (the English 'inn' still has that meaning). Dasein inhabits its world. It is not in its world like a point in a geometrical space. It unfolds (westThe myth of the American West was created by Theodore Roosevelt, Frederic Remington, and Owen Wister. Gary Cooper Starred in the film version of Wister's The Virginian. The macaronic pun is categorial in chora (west in German philosophy and American mythography). ) in its world."
Miguel de Beistegui, The New Heidegger.

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