determination of being as presence

is the kind of thing that the world must be taken to be in order for it to correspond to and justify such an ideal of theoretical knowledge, a knowledge disengaged from its object and positing it neutrally, from the outside as it were.

The ‘determination of being as presence’ is a lot to swallow at once. However, a basic point can be made quite briefly. Western thought, since the inception of philosophical questioning in ancient Athens, is driven towards a knowledge that would be a timeless unconditioned truth about the universe and human life, a knowledge based not on dogma, religious or otherwise, but on what is attested to human reason alone. The ‘determination of being as presence’ names, crudely speaking, the kind of thing that the world must be taken to be in order for it to correspond to and justify such an ideal of theoretical knowledge, a knowledge disengaged from its object and positing it neutrally, from the outside as it were.

is the idea that a certain understanding of being has come (unnoticed but all pervading) to attune all of Western thinking and also ‘common sense’.

For a certain understanding of being has come, unnoticed but all pervading, to attune all of Western thinking and also ‘common sense’. Heidegger names this ‘the determination of being as presence’.

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determination of being as presence