Re: Sv: Martin Heidegger's Sein und Zeit - a seminar
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Originally Posted by Seekers
An understanding of Being is always already implicit in all of what someone perceives in that which is.
(Thomas Aquinas, Summa theologiae II, qu 94 a 2)
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While Heidegger agrees that Being is the most common of all concepts, he does not take that as an excuse not to deal philosophically with it. The common-ness of Being does not make it a clear concept. The understanding that is implicit in perceptions of that which is, as well as in every human existence already, is not all there is to it. Quite the contrary: Heidegger says that Being is the most obscure of all concepts, calling for a closer and more elaborate inquiry.
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While the rest of mankind seeks for the sake of finding and of knowing, the Westerner of today seeks for the sake of seeking; the Gospel saying, 'Seek and ye shall find,' is a dead letter for him, in the full force of this phrase, since he calls 'death' anything and everything that constitutes a definite finality, just as he gives the name 'life' to what is no more than fruitless agitation.
René Guénon, East and West
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