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Friday, October 26, 2007
 
In-der-Blog-sein

We noted when Steven F. Hayward discovered a metaphysical connection between Al Gore and Martin Heidegger in contemporary environmentalism.

Now Celsias critiques Hayward's interpretation.
For Heidegger technology is an ontological problem in that the technological disclosure is itself determinative of the ontological possibilities of an entire epoch. The conclusion of both remains the same: If entities manifest themselves through the prism of ratio-technological thinking then they manifest themselves through our reductive thinking as resources, reserve, production and ultimately consumption. It has nothing to do with phenomena as Hayward suggests since phenomena is a metaphysical term and Heidegger has long ceased to employ such terms. Here Hayward’s analysis is misleading: instead of phenomena he should state beings or things, he should also be aware that the technological age does not mean our way of being is defective but that being has simply receded.
Hat tip to the anonymous dasein that brought Celsias to our attention.
 
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