Heidegger - The End of the Philosophy and the Task of Thinking

 The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking

An attempt at a reflection that persists in questioning.

• Questions are the paths toward an answer.

We are asking:

• To what extent has philosophy in the present age entered into its end.
• What task is reserved for thinking at the end of philosophy?

Philosophy is metaphysics

• Thinking of beings in terms of a whole.
• The world, man, god, etc…

The end in this sense does not mean the negation of a thing,

• but the completion of it.
• But it will not be perfect.

The sciences were derived from Greek philosophy

• They became their own field, and thus
• were separated from Philosophy.
• This is an example of an end.

Science will define and interrogate nature for ways of thinking.

• It will produce it’s own knowledge, and its own truth.
• Lange changes into an exchange of news.
• Science will evolve into an organization of man, and his behaviors.
• Theory is meant to be cybernetic in nature.
• without reference to the ontological,
• or the Being, or reality or existence

Does science represent the best possibility after philosophy,

• or just the first draft.

Thinking in question remains unassuming.

• It is predatory rather than founding.
• Its content is an awakening in readiness,
• of possibilities,
• but it forms remains obscure and elusive.
• It is uncertainty that speaks to the future.

What remains unthought.

• Language, speculative dialect, is a mode in which philosophy comes to appear of itself, 
• and thus feels present.
• but it’s only a mode of thought.
• Searching past the linguistics of thought requires open spaces.
• Places where freedom can roam free
• A place where we can think past what we think.

To light something means to make it right, free and open.

• Brightness plays in the open and thrives there with darkness.

The clearing in the forest

• The opening of the dense forest
• Too make the forest free at one place.
• Light in terms of being free and open has nothing to do with bright.
• Light can stream into the opening.
• Light can illuminate the darkness.

All metaphysics goes back to Plato

• The presentation of the Being of beings.
• Idea: the outward appearance in which beings as such show themselves.
• Outward appearance is a manner of presence,
• and there is no appearance without it.

The clearing:

• Learning from it while questioning it,
• letting it say something to us.
• Reason on throws light,
• it does not provide the clearing.
• The clearing  creates the possibility of the path to presence.
• The question opens the possibility of pat to the Being of being.

Questions open the path for unconcealment

• Where Being and presence co-exist.
• It is not truth,
• it is the possibility to reach truth.
• Unconcealment only reveals what is already there,
• if the there is allow to Be in the clearing.

Being and time becomes,

• Clearing and presence

Heidegger, Martin. The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking. The Philosophy of Communication. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2012. Pp 103-123. Print.