Abstract
Heidegger’s most explicit discussion (Erörterung) of the relationship between human existence (Dasein) and Being after the “turn” (Kehre) perhaps lies in his interpretation, in Identity and Difference, of Parmenides’ fragment 5: “to gar auto noein estin te kai einai.”1 This thesis of identity between human existence (as thinker) and Being, however, gives rise to a question: does this identity eliminate the autonomy of human existence? Does it reduce human existence to Being? It is the object of my paper to offer an answer to this question.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Notes
Heidegger, Identity and Difference, trans. Joan Stambaugh (New York, 1969), pp. 27ff.
Heidegger, “Vom Wesen der Wahrheit,” in Wegmarken (Frankfurt, 1978), p. 186.
Heidegger, “Brief über den Humanismus,” in ibid., p. 330.
Heidegger, Nietzsche II (Pfullingen, 1961), p. 194.
Heidegger, Was Heisst Denken? (TÜbingen, 1971), pp. 153ff.
Ruprecht Pflaumer, “Sein und Mensch im Denken Heidegger,” Philosophische Rundschau 13 (1966): 178.
Identity and Difference, p. 28.
Ibid., p. 29.
Ibid., p. 31.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Ibid.
Cf. Ibid., p. 39.
Cf. “Vom Wesen der Wahrheit."
Cf. Pflaumer, “Sein und Mensch,” pp. 229, 232-33.
Ibid., p. 232.
Ibid., p. 233.
Heidegger, The Question of Being, trans. William Kluback and Jean T. Wilde (New York, 1958), p. 75.
Werner Marx, Heidegger and the Tradition, trans. Theodore Kisiel and Murray Greene (Evanston, 1971), p. 213.
Heidegger, Poetry, Language, Thought, trans. Albert Hofstadter (New York, 1971), p. 198.
Heidegger, On the Way to Language, trans. Peter Hertz (New York, 1971), p. 124.
Ibid., p. 125. The German original reads: “Die Sprache braucht das menschliche Sprechen und ist gleichwohl nicht das blosse Gemächte unserer Sprechtätigkeit” (Unterwegs zur Sprache [Pfullingen, 1979], p. 256).
Ibid., p. 129.
Ibid., p. 128.
Identity and Difference, p. 36.
Heidegger and the Tradition, p. 225.
Ibid., p. 227.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 1986 D. Reidel Publishing Company
About this chapter
Cite this chapter
Wing-Cheuk, C. (1986). The Problem of the Autonomy of Human Existence in Heidegger’S Later Philosophy. In: Tymieniecka, AT. (eds) The Phenomenology of man and of the Human Condition. The Yearbook of Phenomenological Research, vol 21. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4596-8_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4596-8_5
Publisher Name: Springer, Dordrecht
Print ISBN: 978-90-277-2185-3
Online ISBN: 978-94-009-4596-8
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive