Geheimnis, mistério, mystère, mystery

Mystery is the general and constitutive concealment that prevails over being and all that is. One of the central points of Heidegger’s entire phenomenological approach is that something is unconcealed only against the background of this general concealment. Consequently, the mystery concerns essential aspects of Heidegger’s philosophy such as language and truth and is particularly connected to the concept of being (Sein).

First of all, for Heidegger a mystery is not something that is not, or not yet properly, known. He explicitly says that the mystery is not something that cannot be explained adequately in a scientific manner (GA54 GA54
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GA54ES Parmenides (Wintersemester 1942/1943), ed. Manfred S. Frings, 1. Auflage 1982. 2. Auflage 1992. :92-93). The openness of the mystery is not its explanation but on the contrary the acceptance of a general concealment (GA54 GA54
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GA54ES Parmenides (Wintersemester 1942/1943), ed. Manfred S. Frings, 1. Auflage 1982. 2. Auflage 1992. :93). The structure of this concealment can be elucidated with Heidegger’s main point that every disclosure or unconcealment (Entbergung) can only be understood against the background of a concealment (Verbergung). This also is the core of Heidegger’s concept of truth as aletheia. The structure of unconcealment through concealment is explicitly connected with the mystery (GA7 GA7
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GA7ES Vorträge und Aufsätze (1936–1953), ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, 2000. — Ensaios e conferências :26/QCT QCT A Questão da Técnica 25; GA67 GA67
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GA LXVII Metaphysik und Nihilismus. 1. Die Überwindung der Metaphysik (1938-1939); 2. Das Wesen Nihilismus (1946-1948) [1999] :233), which in turn is specified as the essence of truth (Wesen der Wahrheit, GA9 GA9
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CartaH Wegmarken (1919–1961), ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, 1. Auflage 1976. 2., durchgesehene Auflage 1996 :196/150) or even as the highest mode of truth (höchste Gestalt der Wahrheit, GA39 GA39
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GA39EN Hölderlins Hymnen „Germanien“ und „Der Rhein“ (Wintersemester 1934/1935), ed. Susanne Ziegler, 1. Auflage 1980. 2., durchgesehene Auflage 1989. 3., unveränderte Auflage 1999 :119). In a metaphorical way, Heidegger illustrates the structure of unconcealment through concealment with the expression that the darkness (das Dunkle) is the mystery of the light (des Lichten, GA11 GA11
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GA LXXIX Bremer und Freiburger Vorträge. 1. Einblick in das was ist. Bremer Vorträge (1949) 2. Grundsätze Denkens. Freiburger Vorträge (1957) [1994] :93). Another metaphor for this structure is the simultaneous nearness and distance ofthe mystery (GA12 GA12
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CaminhoLinguagem Unterwegs zur Sprache (1950-1959) [1985] — Caminho da Linguagem :223/OWL 154), which is combined again with a metaphor of light: The supposed distance of the mystery turns out to be an incomprehensible nearness and is spelled out as the clearing (Lichtung, GA7 GA7
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GA7ES Vorträge und Aufsätze (1936–1953), ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, 2000. — Ensaios e conferências :287-88/EGT 121-22). [CHL Wrathall
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Geheimnis (segredo): A composição do termo segredo em alemão dá-se a partir do substantivo "Heim" que pode ser traduzido sem maiores problemas para o português por "lar", "casa", "pátria". Geheim significa basicamente pertencente ao lar, à casa ou à pátria. O segredo mostra-se assim como algo que se resguarda no coração do próprio e se confunde com o lugar de sua morada. [Casanova Casanova
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Marco Casanova CASANOVA, Marco Antonio. Filósofo e tradutor para português das obras de Heidegger. ; GA67MAC:189]