HEIDEGGER ON PINDAR’S “GOLD” AND HERACLITUS’S “KOSMOS” AS BEING ITSELF

• Authors: Capobianco Richard
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This essay draws on texts not translated into English as yet, in particular Heidegger’s brilliant 1943 lecture course on Heraclitus, to show how Heidegger understood Pindar’s “gold” and Heraclitus’s “kosmos” as early Greek names for Being itself. The “gleaming” and “adorning” “kosmos” − which the later Heidegger understood to be “world” (Welt) in the fullest and richest sense − is not in the first place any kind of transcendental-phenomenological “projection” of the human being; it is rather the resplendence of the “ever-living” Being-unfolding-way itself from out of which both the gods and human beings − indeed all beings and things − come to pass and pass away.

Keywords

EN

HEIDEGGER; HERACLITUS; PINDAR; BEING; KOSMOS; PHYSIS

• Publisher: Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Filozofia (Philosophy)
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 72
• Issue: 5
• Pages: 347 – 356

Contributors

author

Capobianco Richard

• Stonehill College, Easton, Massachusetts, USA