The Dynamism Necessary for Our Becoming

Abstract

The soul of Heidegger—as the soul of Hegel and of most of the western philosophers—ends in being a merely capturing structure, a sort of technical device without life. For lack of being the soul of a body, it amounts to a kind of structure in search of what can ensure its functioning. And its ability to move, henceforth, is dependent on an artificial energy production and not on the power of a living body. The act of which such a soul is capable is extraneous to a potential which is its own—as it is the case with a mechanism searching from what and how it could become operative. Hence, the soul spreads indefinitely without a return to a natural body being possible, a body from which it could receive its own power.