Categoria: Fenomenologia Hermenêutica

Então como tomar este termo: entender [entendre]? Certamente como nossa maneira, a nós que falamos línguas latinas, de verter o Verstehen alemão. Ainda é preciso ser fiel à acepção elementar desta palavra, e medir em que entender responde bem a Verstehen. Entender, em francês, é atestado desde o século XI, onde ele permite já dizer:…

As Heidegger remarks, it took philosophy two thousand years to formulate the problem of identity in its fully developed form as mediation and synthesis. With Leibniz and Kant preparing the way, the German Idealists Fichte, Hegel, and Schelling place identity in [9] the center of their thought on the foundation of transcendental reflection. These thinkers…

As acções têm, assim, o seu princípio de ser no Humano enquanto tal. Sem o elemento Humano não há acção. É o próprio Humano que é causa eficiente enquanto motivação da acção. E é também o Humano a causa final da acção, o terminus ad quem de todo e qualquer encaminhamento prático. O modelo aristotélico…

The problem starts with Plato. But never having been recognized as a problem, it continues to plague philosophy, that is, before Heidegger came onto the scene to expose how Western metaphysics had gone awry. The problem is summarized in his essay Plato’s Doctrine Of Truth. It is the problem of metaphysics bequeathed by Plato. Through…

My central contention is that there is an urgent need for a retrieval of the notion of ethics, which is under way but not yet completed, and that there are elements of it to be found in Heidegger’s work. This retrieval is needed if there is to be such a re-emergence. What I hope to…

Thus, we must begin with two questions: what is the place of ethics in Heidegger’s thought; and of what relevance to this place is being-with? The answer to the first question is simple and quite unwavering throughout Heidegger’s long trek: the place of ethics is the ontological difference. Ethics, in its most originary sense, means…

Here, philosophical enquiry enters the scene. For when physics is brought to question its conception of matter, or biology its conception of life, or literary studies its conception of a text, what is disclosed are the basic articulations of that discipline’s very subject-matter, that which underlies all the specific objects that the discipline takes as…

Shortly before his death, Plato dreamt of himself as a swan, darting from tree to tree, causing great trouble to the hunters who were unable to catch him. Plato’s early interpreters saw an image of the future in this dream: try as men would to grasp Plato’s philosophy, “none would succeed, but each would interpret…

Ao longo de sua carreira de cinquenta anos, Heidegger foi escandalosamente inconsistente em como empregou a palavra Sein, e isso tem atrapalhado a escolástica por mais de oitenta anos. No entanto, ele insiste que seja qual for a forma que a palavra “ser” assume em um determinado filósofo (por exemplo, como εἶδος em Platão, ou…

Heidegger’s special use of the term “meaning” (Sinn) was pointed out already in our introductory remarks. Our present difficulty thus seems to be purely terminological and should be capable of an easy solution: we must simply find out how Heidegger defines the word “meaning.” The matter, however, is not quite so simple, as can be…