Bogoslovska smotra, Vol. 82 No. 1, 2012.
Original scientific paper
The Idea of Good in Heidegger's Existential Analysis
Robert Petkovšek
; Faculty of Theology, University of Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Abstract
Plato is considered to be the »discoverer of the Apriori«. Platonic definition of Good most profoundly determined the concept of Apriori and explains it as »epekeina tes ousias«. Subsequent development of Western philosophy seen by many as the history of Platonic transformations constantly returned to that Platonic topos and tried to explain it as the central question of philosophy itself. The dividing line separating diverse interpretations into two fundamental groups is the difference between two fundamental ways of life: praxis and theoria. Heidegger was convinced that traditional philosophy falsely interpreted Apriori in the theoretical sense. Contrary to theoretical Apriori«, Heidegger tries to show that the true roots of Apriori are in praxis, in action that he describes as existence. True Apriori is not »beyond« the Being but »on this side« of the Being. Plato described it as utopic, indefinable chora, uncontainable container of all things. Chora is the Platonic equivalent of Heideggerian existence.
Keywords
Heidegger; Plato; Derrida; Apriori; Good; epekeina tes ousias; existence; praxis; theoria; logos
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79232
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Publication date:
28.3.2012.
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