Original scientific paper

Beyond in Heidegger's Fourfold

Saša Horvat orcid.org/0000-0003-1968-8688 ; Catholic Faculty of Theology, University of Zagreb

Abstract

In this paper we are trying to answer the question: how to think about the Beyond? In first step, we have showed why representational thinking (vorstellenden Denken), the subject-object relation, prevented us to even start to think about the essence of the Beyond. That is why in the second step we turned to often dismissed Martin Heidegger's concept of the fourfold (das Geviert): earth, sky, mortals and gods. In brief encounter of gods and men in the fourfold, gods wink at mortals and mediate a sense of how we should understand the divine essence. This is the breakthrough from and of the Beyond. The Beyond in the mirror-play of the fourfold is now considered to be as part of the world and that is a radically different way of philosophical understanding of the world and things in it, including humans as mortals.

Keywords

Beyond; fourfold; God; Martin Heidegger; phenomenology; positionality; representational thinking; thing; world

Hrčak ID:

151497

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/151497

Publication date:

20.1.2016.

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