In-der-Blog-sein

Determinate Negation has a post on understanding and objectivity:

The "ambition for transcendence," for Heidegger, can only be redeemed by first establishing the possibility of a system of freedom, i.e., of autonomous adaptive systems, or, upon the failure (a failure fated, according to Heidegger, by the very project of constructing such a system symptomatic of the meaningless willfulness of modern "technologism" and so the "culmination" of metaphysics) of this establishment, by beginning to discern a more fundamental freedom that resists any systematization.

The system of freedom for Heidegger in this instance may be determined by the reading of Schelling, who was discussing a system of freedom or onto-theology within which to judge evil in a God determined world. Earlier Heidegger has said:

Only where there is freedom is there a purposive for-the-sake-of, and only here is there world. To put it briefly, Dasein's transcendence and freedom are identical! Freedom provides itself with intrinsic possibility; a being is, as free, necessarily in itself transcending.
P. 185

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