Heidegger, Martin
a German philosopher whose work is perhaps most readily associated with phenomenology and existentialism, although his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification.
Heidegger—Standing Reserve
"Everywhere everything is ordered to stand by, to be immediately at hand, indeed to stand there just so that it may be on call for a further ordering." (p.288)
Bibliographic Reference:
Martin Heidegger, Philosophical and political writings (New York ;London: Continuum, 2003).
Heidegger—Challenging Forth
"The revealing that rules in modern technology is a challenging [Herausfordern], which puts to nature the unreasonable demand that it supply energy that can be extracted and stored as such." (p.286)
Bibliographic Reference:
Martin Heidegger, Philosophical and political writings (New York ;London: Continuum, 2003).
Heidegger—Bringing Forth
"Through bringing-forth, the growing things of nature as well as whatever is completed through the crafts and the arts come at any given time to their appearance... This coming rests and moves freely within what we call revealing [aletheia]." (p.284)
Bibliographic Reference:
Martin Heidegger, Philosophical and political writings (New York ;London: Continuum, 2003).
Heidegger—4 Causes
"For centuries philosophy has taught that there are four causes: (1) the causa materialis, the material, the matter out of which, for example, a silver chalice is made; (2) the causa formalis, the form, the shape into which the material enters; (3) the causa finalis, the end, for example, the sacrificial rite in relation to which the chalice required is determined as to its form and matter; (4) the causa efficiens, which brings about the effect that is the finished, actual chalice, in this instance, the silversmith."
Bibliographic Reference:
Martin Heidegger, Philosophical and political writings (New York ;London: Continuum, 2003).
Heidegger—Enframing Dualism
"On the one hand, Enframing challenges forth into the frenziedness of ordering that blocks every view into the coming-to-pass of revealing and so radically endangers the relation to the essence of truth.
On the other hand, Enframing comes to pass for its part in the granting that lets man endure—as yet unexperienced, but perhaps more experienced in the future—that he may be the one who is needed and used for the safekeeping of the coming to presence of truth. Thus does the arising of the saving power appear." (p.301)
Bibliographic Reference:
Martin Heidegger, Philosophical and political writings (New York ;London: Continuum, 2003).
Heidegger—Granting = saving power
"The granting that sends in one way or another into revealing is as such the saving power. For the saving power lets man see and enter into the highest dignity of his essence. This dignity lies in keeping watch over the unconcealment—and with it, from the first, the concealment—of all coming to presence on this earth." (p.300)
Bibliographic Reference:
Martin Heidegger, Philosophical and political writings (New York ;London: Continuum, 2003).
Heidegger—Granting/Destining/Revealing
"Every destining of revealing comes to pass from out of a granting and as such a granting. For it is granting that first conveys to man that share in revealing which the coming-to-pass of revealing needs."
Bibliographic Reference:
Martin Heidegger, Philosophical and political writings (New York ;London: Continuum, 2003).
Heidegger—Granting
"Only what is granted endures. That which endures primally out of the earliest beginning is what grants." (p.300)
Bibliographic Reference:
Martin Heidegger, Philosophical and political writings (New York ;London: Continuum, 2003).
Heidegger—Idea
"The Idea "house" displays what anything is that is fashioned as a house. Particular, real, and possible houses, in contrast, are changing and transitory derivatives of the Idea and thus belong to what does not endure." (p.299)
Bibliographic Reference:
Martin Heidegger, Philosophical and political writings (New York ;London: Continuum, 2003).
Heidegger—Revealing
"Revealing is that destining which, ever suddenly and inexplicably to all thinking, apportions itself into the revealing that brings forth and that also challenges, and which allots itself to man. The challenging revealing has its origin as a destining in bringing forth. But at the same time Enframing, in a way characteristic of a destining, blocks poises." (p.298)
Bibliographic Reference:
Martin Heidegger, Philosophical and political writings (New York ;London: Continuum, 2003).
