Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Being and Humans in Heideggers Letter on Humanism and in his Contribut
Being and Humans in Heideggers Letter on Humanism and in his Contributions to PhilosophyABSTRACT Heideggers briny question, the question of Being concerning human facticity, struggles to uncover the skipper plant to which humanity belong, a ground from which modern society tends to uproot itself through the potence of calculative and representational thinking. What is most dangerous for Heidegger about this process is that the original ground of globe and organisms in general might be cover and forgotten to the extent that humans lose completely the sense of what they in truth need. The task of philosophy is to help bring back humans and beings in general to the place which they primitively belong, i.e., to their most fulfilled way of being which is their decorous or own das Eigene, eigen. The term En-own-ment or Ap-propri-ation Er-eign-is the key book of account in Heideggers thinking since the 1930s marks his attempt to think more originally than metaphysics the relatio n between Being and humans in terms of the being enowned of humans through Being and in terms of the belonging of humans to Being. I will rethink the question of this relation in generator to two of Heideggers writings, and will focus on his struggle for a proper language which would be able to say what essentially remains hide in metaphysical language the truth (or ground) or Being as Ereignis. a) Preliminary remarksIn our age of close encounter between reproduce ways of thinking, believing and behaving angiotensin-converting enzyme fundamental question which arises is How can one find a proper measure for human life in a world which essentially lacks a common ground? The belong great philosopher who, at the brink of the era of pluralism, struggled for a common ground ... ...-1938), GA vol. 65, ed. by F.-W. v. Hermann, Frankfurt am Main 1989.(3) See curiously Heidegger, GA65, section 122.(4) I have no time, here, to develop the notion of an andersanfngliches Denken.(5) Ankla ng is the earn of the first of the six fugues (Fuge) into which the Beitrge are articulated. In their interrelatedness they even off the realm of thinking of what Heidegger calls the transition from the first (Greek) beginning of Western muniment to the other beginning, which the thinking of Ereignis is meant to prepare.(6) See GA 9323, where Heidegger says that Ek-sistenz is das Stehen in der Lichtung des Seins. See also p. 350.(7) Unfortunately, I will have no time, here, to develop the question of the relation between humans and gods.(8) Heidegger moves, in the Beitrge towards a radical simultaneity of beyng and beings.
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