Tag: essentia
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One might perhaps say that the words Wesen and Wesung are the most crucial words for translating Contributions. Therefore, when translating Wesen and Wesung into English, it is of paramount importance to convey the richness, complexity, and subtlety that these words have in German. No other word in the entirety of Contributions offers as varied…
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The empirical sciences constitute an essential dimension of our modern world. This is the reason why the meaning and function of the empirical sciences cannot be fully understood except within the general framework of an effort to come to a better understanding of our modern world, taken as a whole. Thus here, too, we encounter…
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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…
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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…