Is anyone familiar with a phrase about the dingliche Dingheit des Dingens? Is this from Kant? Wittgenstein? Source? A friend mentioned it in conversation but couldn’t remember who it was.
“Das Denken ist Dingheit, oder Dingheit ist Denken.”
-Hegel.
Is that it?
No, it’s not that one. . . thanks, though. It was something that sounded amusing because of the dingliche Dingheit. I tried a Google search and got that Hegel, too, though. Hmm. . .
Maybe something like this by Heidegger? :
(from Das Ding (what else?))
A couple of other convoluted quotes which could be mixed up in it:
“Was wir ein Ding nennen, ist ein gewisser gesetzmäßiger Zusammenhang von zusammengehörigen Empfindungen.” - Mach
“…da nämlich alle Dinge nur Gedankendinge sind, wissen wir von den Dingen nicht zu sagen.” - apparently Fritz Mauthner
also the Hegel quote previously mentioned.
Chuck Berry: My Ding-a-ling. . . .
Stumped me, then. Sounds kind of obscure and redundant, even for the idealists.
Is this it?
I found it in a page that appears to be written mostly in Slovak, http://bbs.inway.cz/bbs2www/CZphilosophy/022c
That seems a bit closer in flavor, and I heard it from an art historian so it makes sense. That’s probably it. Should’a known it was Heidegger’s style. Thanks, guys.