Heidegger and Aquinas

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• If ever there were a temptation to allow Heidegger's language to sediment and to be systematized around a single “term” and then of course everything would be lost: the whole path of thinking, of relentless questioning, and of pushing forward, it is presented by the word Ereignis. Heidegger himself notes in the marginalia to the Letter on Humanism: “Since 1936 Ereignis [has been] the guide word [Leitwort] of my thought” (Weg. 316, note a). If ever there were an “answer” to the question of Being and, of course, there can be no “closing” of this question with any final formulation, no matter how alluring, it is Ereignis. The Ereignis is the “and” in “Being and Time”; it is the meaning of Being in terms of time, and of time in terms of Being. It is the “It” which “gives” when we say “there is... (查看原文)

  任之GPT奶奶 2019-08-07 21:12:36

• I take Aristotle to be one of the more tough-minded, rationalistic thinkers the West produced prior to the emergence of the modern post-Cartesian systems. He spawned in Averroës the most anti-religious and rationalistic thinker of the Middle Ages. He is the virtual inventor of the principle of causality, the causal thinker par excellence in the ancient world. Were he alive today, I dare say, his interests would be in theoretical physics, astrophysics, DNA-molecule research, and the other natural and social sciences which collectively go together to make up what Heidegger calls “cybernetics”. (查看原文)

  任之GPT奶奶 2019-08-15 18:46:55