Basic Concepts

by Heidegger, Martin; Aylesworth, Gary E.

• ISBN13: 9780253327673
• ISBN10: 0253327679
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1993-10-01
• Publisher: Indiana Univ Pr

Summary

Ò . . . an excellent and accessible introduction to the later Heidegger.Ó ÑChoice ÒHeideggerÕs method is unmistakable in these lectures. . . . This is thinking that is alive, always green.Ó ÑReview of Metaphysics ÒThis translation . . . enlarges our historical view of the probing advances in HeideggerÕs thought.Ó ÑInternational Studies in Philosophy This clear translation of Martin HeideggerÕs lecture course at the University of Freiburg in the winter semester of 1941, first published in German in 1981 as Grundbegriffe (volume 51 of HeideggerÕs collected works), offers a concise introduction to the new directions of his later thought. In this transition, Heidegger shifts from the problem of the meaning of being to the question of the truth of being.

Table of Contents

Translator+s Foreword

Introduction: The Internal Connection between Ground-Being-Inception

Elucidation of the title of the lecture -Basic Concepts+

Basic concepts are ground-concepts

The claim of the ground-concepts

The difference of claims upon man

The claim of requirements: Needing

The claim upon the essence of historical man

Readiness for the originary, the incipient, and the -knowing better+ of historiological consciousness

The meaning of reflection upon the inception of history

The goal of the lecture: Reflection as preparation for confronting the inception of our history Recapitulation

Our understnading of -basic concepts+ and our relation to them as an anticipatory knowing

The decay of knowing in the present age: The decision in favor of the useful over what we can do without

The inception as a decision about what is essential in Western history (in modern times: unconditional will and technology)

Practicing the relation to what is -thought-worthy+ by considering the ground

The essential admittance of historical man into the inception, into the -essence+ of ground

Considering the Saying

The Differnce between Beings and Being First Division: Discussion of the -Is+, of Beings as a Whole

Beings as a whole are actual, possible, necessary

Nonconsideration of the essential distinction between being and beings

The nondiscoverability of the -is+

The unquestioned character of the -is+ in its grammatical determination-emptiness and richness of meaning

The emptiness and indeterminacy of the -is+ as a presupposition for its being a -copula+

Being (-is+) as the general, the universal

The solution of healthy common sense: Acting and effecting amoung beings instead of empty thinking about being (workers and soldiers)

Renouncing being-dealing with beings Recapitulation

Consideration of beings as whole presupposes the essential inclusion of man in the difference betwen being and beings

Wealth and poverty of meanin in the -is+

Equating dealing with the actual with considering begins as a whole

The unthought residence of man in the distinction between being and beings Second Divions: Guidewords for Reflection upon Being

Being is the emptiest and at the same time a surplus

Being is the most common and at the same time unique

Being is the most intelligible and at the same time concealment

Being is the most worn-out and at the smae time the origin

Being is the most reliable and at the same time the non-ground

Being is the most said and at the same time a keeping silent

Being is the most forgotten and at the same time remembrance

Being is the most constraining and at the same time liberation

Unifying reflection upon being in the sequence of quidewords Recapitulation Guidewords about Being

Being is empty as an abstract concept and at the same time a surplus

Being is the most common of all and at the same time uniqueness (The sameness of being and nothing)

The meaning of the quidewords: Instructions for reflection upon the difference between being and beings Third Division: Being and Man

The ambivalence of being and the essence of man: What casts itself toward us and is cast away

The historicality of being and the historically esstential abode of man

Remembrance into the first inception of Western thinking is reflection upon being, is grasping the ground Recapitulation

The discordant essence in the relation of man to being: The casting-toward and casting-away of being

Remembrance into the first inception is placement into still presencing being, is grasping it as the ground

The Incipient Saying of Being in the Fragment of Anaximander

The conflicting intentions of phi

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