Ihor Karivets.Martin Heidegger’s job of thinking

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https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2020.01.070

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Heidegger, being-between, everydayness, meaningful thinking, loneliness, death, Dasein

Abstract

This article is dedicated to 130th Anniversary of German thinker Martin Heidegger. The main goal of the article is to develop Ukrainian reception of Heidegger’s philosophical heritage. The author considers the particularities of Heidegger’s understanding of thinking in the context of Dasein’s fundamental ontology. Thus, thinking is understood as being in a "tradition without tradition"; this, in turn, means the immediacy of thinking, which will never be past, never become a memory or a system of memories (beliefs). The element of thinking is the element of spontaneity, that is, of voluntaries: it is impossible to "develop" thinking or "teach" to think meaningfully, because it is a voluntary affair. The voluntary cause of meaningful thinking reveals the truth (unconcealedness) of being. The author considers the scenario of falling now-being into its non-existent existence, interpreting it in Heidegger's terminology as a state of "forgetting of being". This status is updated if it is transformed into a "techno-technological" object, which must act on certain algorithms and provide "development" or "progress" metrics.

The author develops the thesis that Dasein’s fundamental ontology of Heidegger reveals its condition as being-between. Being-between is not anthropological, but ontological category. The world of Dasein is everydayness between the birth and the death. The very being-between of Dasein induces its meaningful thinking. Following Heidegger, the author states that Dasein, that is lost in being-between, becomes centered (by subject) which pointlessly deploys power under the being. Therefore, in this context of Heidegger’s understanding of thinking the author also interprets the causes of such pointless existence of Dasein and its consequences. According to the author, now-being can save only reflection.

Author Biography

Ihor Karivets

Doctor of Sciences in Philosophy, Associate Professor, the Head of the Chair of Philosophy, Lviv Polytechnic National University,

12, Stepana Bandury, Lviv

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2020-06-18

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Karivets, I. (2020). Ihor Karivets.Martin Heidegger’s job of thinking. Filosofska Dumka, (1), 70–79. https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2020.01.070

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