Merold Westphal, writing in the first chapter of his Transcendence and Self-Transcendence on the same topic I posted on here - but oh, so much better. He argues that, in Heidegger’s critique, both premodernity and modernity share a common technological character, finding diverse ways of accomplishing the same goal: to put the world, including God or whatever [...]
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Westphal on Heidegger: How Not to Speak About God
Posted in Philosophy, tagged Aristotle, Heidegger, Merold Westphal, ontotheology on March 10, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Heidegger on Descartes’ use of ‘God’ as equipment
Posted in Philosophy, tagged alterity, Aristotle, Descartes, Heidegger, Jeremiah, ontotheology on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
”By substance we can understand nothing else than an entity which is in such a way that it needs no other entity in order to be.” So Descartes, quoted by Heidegger in his critique (Being and Time 125). Heidegger continues, ‘That whose Being is such that it has no need at all for any other [...]
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