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Barely visible
Heidegger’s Platonic Theology

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26/2 – Fall 2021, pages 227-241
Date of online publication: 30 décembre 2021
Date of publication: 30 décembre 2021

Abstract

Heidegger’s thinking, according to his own testimony, is rooted in two traditions of philosophy: Platonic-Aristotelian ontology and Husserl’s phenomenology. Heidegger’s claim that the original understanding of Being is lost and has to be rediscovered conjoins the phenomenological claim that there is a certain mode of seeing that enables a revelatory philosophical insight. I would like to show how Heidegger combines both these claims in his supposition that the original philosophical conceptuality, as developed by Plato and Aristotle, was lost but can be retrieved by means of applying the phenomenological method to the interpretation of texts. Furthermore, I would like to interpret this retrieval in the context of Heidegger’s project of “overcoming metaphysics” and Nietzsche’s suggestion that “Plato was essentially a pantheist, yet in the guise of a dualist”.

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Serafin, Andrzej. “Barely visible: Heidegger’s Platonic Theology.” Forum Philosophicum 26, no. 2 (2021): 227–41. doi:10.35765/forphil.2021.2602.04.

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