References for Theme: Being and Truth [1933]
- Heidegger, Martin
- Being and Truth (2010)
(p.162) [Extract from Lecture On 30 January 1933: Kolbenheyer]-We are grateful for the role that spiritual workers of this sort play in life, for they are doing nothing but bringing to light a perhaps unintended justification of the most trite reactionary position. The facts demonstrate it: the weightiest objection to the speech and the clearest sign of how questionable it is, is the deafening applause that I do not begrudge Herr Kolbenheyer.8. Whoever has experienced and grasped even the slightest part of the new German reality that stands before us must already know after Kolbenheyer’s first sentences how things stand with his...
- Being and Truth (2010)
(p.166) Only insofar as Being is care does a way of Being become possible such as resoluteness, labor, heroism, and so on. But because man has these possibilities, he also has, on the other side, the possibilities of innocuousness, busy-ness, cowardice, slavery, money-grubbing, and so on. These are not, as it were, regrettable additions. Only where there is busy-ness is there labor. Only on the basis of this Being (as care) is man a historical entity. Care is the condition of possibility for man’s ability to be a political entity.
- Being and Truth (2010)
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