The Ontologico-political aspect of Heidegger's thought
ENThe article provides the ontological context for a possible Heideggerian solution of a politico-philosophical problem. This problem is rooted in the context of the history of Being, namely, at the end of the history of metaphysics which allows and demands transforming its ground. At the end of the history of metaphysics, Being has revealed itself as Subject. Both the ontological issue and the politico-philosophical issue share the same problematic structure, that of Gestell as well as of the relation between the general and the particular. The general is the cause and the particular is the effect. Hence, this issue is the ontological issue of causality. The article demonstrates that how the Heideggerian thought of Being dwells on the issue of cause, and how the introduction of the ontological difference, and interdependence, of being and Being can shed light on the political aspect of thought. First, the article indicates that both Subject and Dasein are variants of the fundamental self-revelation of Being as ὑποκείμενον. The metaphysico-historical conclusion of the latter is Subject, or Gestell, but its Heideggerian transformation is Dasein. The time of Gestell is characterised by a strict, yet reciprocally supportive, opposition between the one (the general) and the many (the particular) whereas Dasein is characterised by the ontological circle and unity between the one and the many, based on an original interpretation of ancient Greek thought. Second, the article demonstrates that Subject, or Being as Subject, is the causal principle which governs the modern time.Everything has to do with the causal principle. Thus, the transformation of the fundamental structure of our time has to do with the trans formation of this causal principle, that is, of transforming subject into self-concealing Being. Third, the article shows that the analysis of causality is rooted in the description of the ready-to-hand in Being and Time, which is subsequently reintegrated in the reinterpretation of pre-Socratic thought (here, of the thought of Anaximander), that is, in the course of transforming the ground of Western thought into self-concealing Being. It freshly reveals the structure of ontological difference as that of the relation between the one and the many, or the general and the particular, where the general is no more con ceived as a being but as Being. Finally, the very ontological unity of the one and the many is shown to be embedded in causality itself. This unity, as exhibited already in Being and Time, with the help of the principles exposed by Aristotle and Kant, is equiprimordial, or ontologically synonymous, with the ontological relation between Being and time. Keywords: causality; individual; Heidegger; ontology; political philosophy. [From the publication]
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