A New Way Of Thinking: Meditative Thinking in Later Heidegger
Date Issued
2006
Date
2006
Author(s)
Wang, Yan-Siang
DOI
zh-TW
Abstract
Abstract
The inquiry of Being is always at the core of philosophy. In this thesis I want to show Heidegger’s meditative thinking of Being in terms of an analysis on his reflection of Being and the thinking of Being.
First, this thesis shows that for Heidegger the meaning of Being is un-concealment, and since the un-concealing of Being itself is also the revealing of entities, therefore they belong together. In this belonging-togetherness, Being brings about the appearance of entities, i.e., Being makes the presence of entities.
In the making presence of entities, Being for Heidegger is the primordial language. In the speaking of the primordial language of Being Heidegger discovered the primordial belongingness of Being and entities and also the belongingness of Being and thinking. Being cannot reveal itself as Being without the thinking of human beings. Heidegger announces that the primordial belongingness of Being and thinking is the foundation of thinking.
Since thinking occurs in its belongingness to Being, the authentic character of thinking cannot be regarded as the representative ability of man, but as his acceptance of the claim of Being. Besides, since thinking occurs essentially as the acceptance of Being—the acceptance of the gift from Being, that which thinking accepts is always the unusual, the extraordinary. Furthermore, the gift that thinking accepts is not some specific object but the world that opened up by Being. Being, things, and thinking all belong altogether and they form a unitary whole.
Finally, since Being gives a whole and holds things and thinking together, and thinking is a kind of listening, a listening to the primordial language of Being, then thinking always remains in its original relation with Being. Thinking is the realm through which we can discern the revealing of Being. Therefore, this thesis comes to the conclusion that Heidegger’s concept of thinking is not only the way that leads us to the essence of Being and of thinking, but also lead us to discern the core of philosophy, that is to say, Being.
Key words: Being, belonging-together, the unusual, meditative thinking.
Subjects
存有
隸屬
超乎尋常的
沉思。
Being
belonging-together
the unusual
meditative thinking.
Type
thesis
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