Sunday, July 23, 2017
National Catholic Register reviews Andrew Root’s “The Loss of Family as the Loss of Being: Divorce as an Ontological Wound,”
I found Andrew Root’s chapter, “The Loss of Family as the Loss of Being: Divorce as an Ontological Wound,” particularly relevant, again, though, up to a point. The description of the impact of a father’s absence on a child after a divorce rang true. Referencing the thoughts of Martin Heidegger, a German philosopher, Root says, that “when the one who moves to another place is her father, the one responsible for the origins of her own being ... this sends shockwaves back to her own being”. “An ontological world has collapsed. ... She must question who he is, and in so doing must also ask who she is”.¶ 7:35 AM
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So the father is "the one" responsible? I guess Aristotle must be right: the mother contributes only matter, not form, and is thus ontologically inferior.
I first read it as: the ontological condition here are simply the absence of the father. Reading it more closely, designating the sperm donor as the entity "responsible for the origins of her own being", would be challenging to defend. But then to the Romans the pater familias is the primary ontological entity, I mean, after the pater noster.
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