A Filozófia Tanszék szervezésében Michael Chighel (Dean & Professor, Ashkenazium, Milton Friedman University) és Peter Trawny (Professor, University of Wuppertal, Philosophisches Seminar) tartanak előadást „Heidegger and the Judeo-Christian Tradition” címmel a Danubianum 814-ben, május 13-án, kedden, 12.30-14.00-ig. Az előadásra minden érdeklődőt szeretettel várunk!
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Michael Chighel: Heidegger and Genesis 1
The first chapter of the Bible has given European civilization its definitive cosmogony, its story of how everything came to be. "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." This teaching determined how Western thinking regarded the fundamental nature of things at least since the fourth century. Since the Enlightenment, it is true, the advent of the Secular Age introduced a major shift in the way that the Creator is regarded. But the notion of the thing as ens creatum has undergone no fundamental change with respect to ontology. No thinker has shown this more sharply than Martin Heidegger. It was on the basis of his great deconstruction of Western metaphysics or what he called "ontotheology" that Heidegger prophesied "another beginning" (andere Anfang) of Western thinking which would involve a radical shift away from the Judeo-Christian doctrine of the "Beginning" (breshit) in Genesis 1. The lesson will wonder to what extent "another beginning" of Western thought is indeed desirable in light of the question: Is there something in Genesis 1 that Heidegger missed?
Peter Trawny: Heidegger’s Metapolitics and Buber’s Zionism
When we speak of Heidegger’s engagement for Nationalsocialism, we can only state his philosophical and even ethical failure at the beginning of the thirties. When we speak of Buber’s engagement for Zionism in his texts of the twenties, we can only admire his passion for Erets Jisrael. But if we compare Heidegger’s and Buber’s „nationalistic“ texts, we will find structural (and temporal) similarities, which demand from us a thorough interpretation. Finally the comparison will not be a comparison anymore, but a new and different understanding of Heidegger's problematic engagement.
