aletheia

is a conception of truth dependent not on the accuracy of representations in reality but on the act of disclosure, uncovering unconcealing. It concerns bringing things out of hiddenness and unforgetting.

38. Aletheia, unconcealment, is named here. It is called well-rounded because it is turned in the pure sphere of the circle in which beginning and end are everywhere the same. In this turning there is no possibility of twisting, distortion, and closure. (Heidegger 'the end of philsophy')

is light always struggling with the powers of darkness, lodged in a field of strife. Openness is always threatened and defined against what threatens it.

For Heidegger, aletheia is light always struggling with the powers of darkness, lodged in a field of strife. Openness is always threatened and defined against what threatens it. Plato had already forgotten this.

is not a skeleton key that unlocks all the enigmas of thought. Rather, it is the enigma itself the matter of thought.

Accordingly we are detained by something else that is worth considering insofar as 'aletheia' comes to language as disclosedness. What this word names is not a passe-partout that unlocks all the enigmas of thought, instead 'aletheia' is the enigma itself the matter of thought. (Heidegger 'hegel and the greeks' .pdf)

And for Heidegger aletheia apparently did not mean openness on any concrete subject. (Indeed, Heidegger's writing tends to erase specifics... his words are not names).

is the deep structure that clears the way for the history of being to follow. It is accessible to us as one aspect of the experience of being, but structurally aletheia is the very condition of possibility for being itself.

For Heidegger, Aletheia' designates the deep structure that clears the way for the history of Being to follow. It is accessible to us as one aspect of the experience of Being, but structurally aletheia is the very condition of possibility for Being itself.

is truth as disclosure whereby disclosedness is the basic character of da-sein in accordance with which it is its there.

Rather, for Heidegger, aletheia or truth as disclosure plays a much more fundamental, ontological role: 'Disclosedness is the basic character of Da-sein in accordance with which it is its there [das Da, what stands before or lies around the . . .

is truth, but it is perhaps best translated as this kind of unconcealment, the revealing manifestation of what is.

For Heidegger aletheia, truth, is best translated as this kind of unconcealment, the revealing manifestation of what is.

is available only to human being since only human being exists outside itself in the world, immersed in the play of absence and presence that unfolds in the course of history.

Since humans are the ones who exist outside themselves in the world, it is only humans who are immersed in the play of absence and presence that unfolds in the course of history.

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aletheia