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A destiny is an underlying tendency in the order of things, a force that provides a sense of direction even though it does not coerce in any way. Though events that happen as a result of destiny often can be given a physical explanation, the idea that some events are more or less appropriate to the current scheme of things remains a deep assumption built into the use of the word (the word Geschick has “being appropriate” as one of its meanings). The centrality in Heidegger’s work of the German word translated as “destiny,” Geschick, reflects a preoccupation with that notion in the nineteenth century (e.g., “manifest destiny”). The intuitive force of the idea of destiny comes from the sense that events seem to have a meaning-laden trend. This sense obviously provides the emotional punch to the account of destiny in §§72-77 of Being and Time . In these sections, we can see how a way of unfolding makes sense in the nexus of a temporal order.
Based on this idea of destiny, Heidegger uses a set of homonymously and etymologically related terms to clarify the “historicity” (Geschichtlichkeit) of human existence. Much of the earlier discussion in Being and Time aimed at bringing to light how life can be seen as what we might call a “life-story” in which what has come before prepares the way for the outcome of the whole. In chapter 5 of Part 11, Heidegger asks if there might be a way of understanding life that is “more primordial” than the ordinary one conceived as temporality. His answer is that existence is bounded by two “ends,” a pole of what has already come (the “past”) and a futural end of what is yet to come (Zukommen). Human existence unfolds within these two poles, the future and the past. His claim is that the dimension of futurity is often ignored, even though it provides the unifying bond of our being. Heidegger asks whether there is a more primordial account of our being-a-whole, one that brings to light our wholeness of being. We cannot grasp our being solely by looking at our facing forward with projects and anticipations, leaving “behind it” all that has been (SZ 372). Such an orientation of the analysis remains “onesided” without embracing Dasein’s “having-been.” Therefore, we must include “being toward the beginning” to show how the whole of life “stretches itself along between birth and death” (SZ 373).
The emphasis on human historicity (Geschichtlichkeit) makes it possible to see a number of terms as related. The German word Historie refers to the topics and methods of the subject-matter called “history”; it recounts a course of events as a “story” (Geschichte-, see History). This moreover connects a semantic cluster of words that draw their meaning from the verb schicken, an ordinary word for sending or delivering, implying a sending or being sent. Dasein’s authentic being is characterized by Schicksal or sending.
Given these resonances, Heidegger sees human life as a story-shaped narrative or Geschichte, a word now implying dispensation and delivering over. This lets us see our lives as a “happening” or “historizing” (Geschehen) which can be stretched along. For each individual Dasein there is a “fate” (Schicksal). On this view, sending or dispensation and the binding together of the fates of a community yield a people’s “destiny.” [WCHL:221]
GESCHICK E CORRELATOS
Matérias
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Patocka (1999:86-90) – a questão do sentido em distintas épocas
11 de junho de 2023, por Cardoso de Castro
[…] Y es que quizá la esencia propia de esa cesura que tratamos de establecer como demarcación entre la época prehistórica y la historia en sentido propio se encuentre en esa conmoción de la certeza ingenua acerca del sentido, la cual domina la vida de la humanidad hasta esa transformación específica significada por el origen casi simultáneo —y en un sentido profundo, verdaderamente unitario— de la política y la filosofía.
Iván Ortega Rodríguez
No es el caso que la humanidad (…)
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Caputo (MEHT:47-49) – Princípio da Razão Suficiente
13 de março de 2017, por Cardoso de Castro
Excertos do capítulo II de THE MYSTICAL ELEMENT IN HEIDEGGER’S THOUGHT, p. 47-49.
The point of departure for our study of the mystical element in Heidegger’s thought is the course of lectures which Heidegger gave at Freiburg in 1955-56 and which he published under the title The Principle of Ground (Der Satz vom Grund). The text consists of a series of thirteen course lectures and a concluding address on the subject of this famous principle of Leibniz. "nothing is without reason" (nihil (…)
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Bret Davis (2007:5-9) – vontade
8 de dezembro de 2023, por Cardoso de Castro
destaque
[…] se quisermos seguir o caminho de Heidegger para repensar a vontade, temos de pôr em causa de forma mais radical o pressuposto tradicional de que a vontade é simplesmente uma "faculdade do sujeito". Para começar, e se fosse verdade o contrário — que a subjetividade é antes, por assim dizer, uma "faculdade da vontade"? E se a vontade estivesse subjacente ao sujeito, e não o contrário? Em outras palavras, e se fosse o caso de pensar em termos de um sujeito que possui faculdades, (…)
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Maldiney (Aîtres:7-10) – es gibt
21 de novembro de 2023, por Cardoso de Castro
Le Es du es gibt allemand peut bien être le fond. Mais le y du il y a est l’ouverture . Y être tel est l’acte originaire qui rend possible toute présence dont l’imminence au monde conditionne toute instance. Or il se déploie en ouvrant le temps. C’est parce qu’en lui la présence se destine qu’il y a destin. « Si la présence peut être atteinte par les coups du destin, c’est uniquement parce que dans le fond de son être elle est destin. »
Mais la présence n’est pas ce qu’elle est dans le (…)
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Richardson (2003:20-22) – Positividade do Pensamento Fundamental
26 de setembro de 2024, por Cardoso de Castro
De forma mais positiva, o pensamento fundamental tenta meditar o Ser como o processo da verdade, ou seja, o processo de iluminação nos seres. Qual é a estrutura fundamental desse pensamento? É trazida à luz pela natureza do homem concebida como ek-sistência, ou seja, dotada da prerrogativa, única entre os entes, de uma abertura extática ao processo de iluminação de ά-λήθεια. A Ek-sistência assim entendida pode ser chamada de “Aí” (Da) do Ser, porque é aquele domínio entre os entes onde (…)
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Maldiney (Aîtres:5-7) – Existence et temporalité – présence et souci
21 de novembro de 2023, por Cardoso de Castro
Existence et temporalité d’une part, présence et souci d’autre part forment deux structures affines qui communiquent entre elles et se rejoignent dans cet existential équivoque qu’est le destin.
La tension diachronique sous-jacente à la constitution du schème temporel est celle d’une présence (humaine) qui s’anticipe soi-même en s’ouvrant son propre champ. La temporalité est la dimension d’être d’un être en souci. Il ne s’agit pas là d’une simple constatation empirique (encore que (…)
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Schürmann (1982:318-320) – destino (Geschick)
16 de junho de 2023, por Cardoso de Castro
Hacerse un destino o padecerlo, comenzarlo, hacerse cargo de él y acabarlo, no es ese el horizonte en que esas líneas inscriben el Geschick. Desde el momento en que la cuestión de la fenomenología consiste en las modalidades de la presencia, el destino no puede resumirse en la destinación.
Miguel Lancho
«Por la palabra “destino” se entiende habitualmente lo que es determinado y detentado por la suerte: un destino triste, o funesto, o feliz. Esta significación es derivada. “Destinar” (…)
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Zimmerman (1990) – Movimentos modeladores das épocas
20 de novembro de 2024, por Cardoso de Castro
Ο entendimento de Heidegger, de que a moderna tecnologia é um meio de revelação das coisas, pode ser clarificado quando inserido no contexto da história da filosofia alemã. Do mesmo modo que Kant, Heidegger acreditava que a tarefa do filósofo era a de descobrir as condições transcendentais que tornaram viável o conhecimento e a acção humanos. Estas condições não são «coisas» em si próprias, mas antes tornam possível a nossa «experiência» objectiva das coisas. Na sua análise à tecnologia (…)