Saturday, June 1, 2019
Being and Humans in Heideggers Letter on Humanism and in his Contribut
Being and Humans in Heideggers Letter on humanitarianism and in his Contributions to PhilosophyABSTRACT Heideggers main question, the question of Being concerning human facticity, struggles to uncover the original ground to which reality belong, a ground from which modern confederation tends to uproot itself through the dominance of calculative and representational thinking. What is most dangerous for Heidegger about this process is that the original ground of man and beings in general office be covered and forgotten to the extent that humans lose completely the sense of what they truly need. The task of philosophy is to help bring back humans and beings in general to the place which they originally belong, i.e., to their most fulfilled way of being which is their proper or own das Eigene, eigen. The term En-own-ment or Ap-propri-ation Er-eign-is the key record book in Heideggers thinking since the 1930s marks his attempt to think more originally than metaphysics the relation 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 provide rethink the question of this relation in reference to two of Heideggers writings, and will focus on his struggle for a proper speech communication which would be able to say what essentially remains concealed in metaphysical language the truth (or ground) or Being as Ereignis. a) Preliminary remarksIn our age of close encounter between manifold ways of thinking, believing and behaving one thorough question which arises is How can one find a proper measure for human life in a world which essentially lacks a commonality ground? The last 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) collar especially Heidegger, GA65, section 122.(4) I have no time, here, to develop the notion of an andersanfngliches Denken.(5) Anklang is the name of the first of the six fugues (Fuge) into which the Beitrge are articulated. In their interrelatedness they list the realm of thinking of what Heidegger calls the transition from the first (Greek) beginning of Western history 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 stilbesterol 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 prow simultaneity of beyng and beings.
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