Heidegger introduces into philosophical discourse a radical distinction. He speaks of two modes on thinking : rational calculative thinking and intuitive, meditative thinking.
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The calculative mode predominates in modern secular and technology man. It is based on the wilfulness and desire to objectify everything and to dominate the objects of thought.
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The meditative mode of thinking, which Heidegger also calls 'thankful thinking' is based on a completely different attitude which is respectful, open, loving and in complete awe of the mystery of what is, the Being of beings.
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Meditative thinking is a 'thinking' that overcomes the limits of willful ego-consciousness and the separation inherent in the subjects-object split.
In Heidegger's ultimate vision, we modern Western people have lost our original wholesomeness and holy embededness in Being and have become lost in material world of things, of human projects, of human willfullness, what he calls "fallenness". We have given up our relatedness and awareness of the ground of Being, we have lost the experience of the truth of Being as an experience of gratitude for the revelation of the 'splendour of simple'.
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Heidegger chose a multihyphenated term, 'being-in-the-world' (Dasein) to characterize the essential two way person-world interrelationship (Being & Time, 1927).
For Heidegger, Dasein is that being among the beings that is aware, is questioning, is concerned, is philosophical. Dasein asks even more deeply : 'Why is there something rather than nothing at all ?' It asks about 'the nothing', the gorund of all beings, Being itself, that is, that which is beyond all form, names, distinctions, determinations; the very condition of possibilities. Thus Dasein (man's existance) is not only concerned about it's own being, but has a primordial understanding of the nature of the Being. Heidegger says that any great thinker has but one central thought during all of his life, one essential intuition; Heidegger's is 'what is Being ?'.
Heidegger's thinking and the Eastern Mind
-Rolf von Eckartsberg & Ronald S Valle
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