Diving into Section 98, we read that beingness projects itself upon constant presence and that “time essentially occurs in the essence of truth for beingness.” From this we gain a sense of “temporalizing” as critical to being. After a look at Heidegger’s take on the perennial distinction between being and becoming, among other things, This…
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Starting at section 96, we read about ousia, techne, and physis, or being, craft, and nature. How these three forces play out in the history of philosophy is confronted in the context of understanding time as integral to being and the templates and conflations of form and matter. We then look into two approaches to…
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Starting at section 92, we read about how the other beginning must not be “contra” the first beginning, but must establish something completely different. This is achieved by confronting the great philosophers in terms of the guiding question, or what is being, and by understanding “thinking” as a cognate of “time” as an active verb….
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We conclude section 91 with meditations on thought as anticipatory grasping, the importance of the question of truth, and beyng as the intrinsically turning event. We then discuss the cognitive chain of “thoughts to words to actions” in the light of Charlie Kirk’s assassination not only as liberalism’s justification for violence as a cure to…
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Working our way through section 91, we read of how thinking has become the search for certainty (not truth) and thus beingness has become objectivity. This is all the result of ratio, or reason, stepping into the service of fides, or faith, in the middle ages and the resulting “secular Christianity” of contemporary liberalism. Looking…
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We read about how the first beginning experiences the truth of beings while the other beginning experiences the truth of beyng, and we discuss the differences. Heidegger counsels not to gauge or interpret the primordiality of beginnings according to their starting point or advancements and highlights the guideline and anticipatory grasp of thought as instrumental…
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In section 90, we read about negation, and how it is too frequently taken to mean sheer rejection, dismissal, disparagement, or disintegration. In short, negation is logically neutered into the “not.” Heidegger urges us to think of negation as a leaping away into the Da (or there) of Dasein, and thus to be a kind…
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In sections 87-89 we read of establishing a history of metaphysics that enables the realization that “refusal pertains intrinsically to the essence of beyng,” of taking thinking back into the grounding of Dasein, and of the “long periods of solitudes and the stillest raptures at the fireside of beyng” that the transitional ones must undertake….
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In sections 85 and 86 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we read of the four “extensions” of metaphysics that lead to our ingrained thinking about being and beyng. Primary among these is the compulsion to make beingness present and relate to it as presence, which culminates in a host of symptoms and effects….
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Reading thru the middle of section 85 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) we wade through meditations on the overcoming of metaphysics, or “the knowledge of the ‘being’ of beings.” This leads to a variety of musings on how liberalism is the real world manifestation of the metaphysical heritage, so the process of ending…
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