Sunday morning I find myself “deep in the weeds” reading chapter X of What Is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger. I have one more chapter to go. I am determined to finish the book because the partial reading (half way) that was recommended is a certain finish short of the view which Heidegger has…
Telling is the business of language. What does language tell? What language tells, what it speaks and what it keeps silent, is and remains always everywhere what is, what can be, what has been, and what is about to come — …For whatever is put into language in any real sense is essentially richer…
A wide range of meaningbelongs generally to the nature of every word.This fact, again, arises from the mystery of language.Language admits of two things: One, that it be reduced to a mere system of signs,uniformly available to everybody,and in this form be enforced as binding; And two, that language at one great momentsays one…
Yesterday was Autumn Equinox. If we think of the progression of the months as relative to the position of the earth and the sun, September 22nd is the point at which the length of daytime and darkness is roughly equal. A pivot point between summer’s warmth, and the chill of winter’s season of sleep….
In order to get underway, we do have to set out. This is meant in a double sense: for one thing, we have to open ourselves¹ to the emerging prospect and direction of the way itself; and then, we must get on the way, that is, must take the steps by which alone the…
You cannot talk of colors to the blind. But a still greater ill than blindness is delusion. Delusion believes that it sees, and that it sees in the only possible manner, even while this its belief robs it of sight. What Is Called Thinking by Martin Heidegger, Part II, Lecture…
“What is it that calls on us to think?” Which is the call that claims man’s/woman’s thinking? This question, one might say, already presupposes that thinking is by nature something that is called for, and is maintained and, so to speak, retained within its nature only by the call. The question “What is This…
The thanc [Old English] means man’s/woman’s innermost mind, heart, the heart’s core, that innermost essence of man/woman which reaches outward most fully and to the outermost limits, and so decisively that, rightfully considered, the idea of an inner and out outer world does not arise. When we listen to the word thanc in its…
Words are not terms, and thus are not like buckets and kegs from which we scoop a content that is there. Words are wellsprings that are found and dug up in the telling, wellsprings that must be found and dug up again and again, that easily cave in, but that at times also well…
The overman surpasses man as he is by entering into the relatedness to Being— Being which, as the will of the eternal recurrence of the same, eternally wills itself and nothing else. The overman goes toward the eternal recurrence of the same, because that is where his essential nature is rooted. Nietzsche cast the…
