The Essence Of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory And Theaetetus Vom Wesen Der Wahrheit. English

"The Essence of Truth is an examination of the most fundamental theme in Heidegger's philosophy: the difference between truth as 'the unhiddenness of beings' and truth as 'the correctness of propositions'. Based on a course of lectures delivered at the University of Freiburg in 1932, the book presents Heidegger's original analysis of Plato's philosophy and represents an important discussion of a fundamental subject of philosophy through the ages." -From publisher Cover HalfTitle Series Title Copyright Contents Translator’s Foreword Preliminary Considerations § 1. The Questionworthiness of Our ‘Self-Evident’ Preconceptions Concerning ‘Essence’ and ‘Truth’ § 2. History of the Concept of Truth: Not Historical Confirmation of Preconceptions,But Return to the Originary Greek Experience of ἀλήθεια (Unhiddenness) PART ONE The Clue to the‘Essence’ of Aλhθeia Interpretation ofthe Allegory of theCave in Plato’sPoliteia 1 The Four Stages of the Occurrence of Truth A. The First Stage (514 a 2–515 c 3): the Situation of Man in the Underground Cave § 3. The Unhidden in the Cave: the Shadows B. The Second Stage (515 c 4–515 e 5): a ‘Liberation’ of Man within the Cave § 4. New Features of ἀλήθεια Revealed by the Unsuccessful Attempt at Liberation C. The Third Stage (515 e 5–516 e 2): the Genuine Liberation of Man to the Primordial Light § 5. The Ascent of Man from the Cave Towards the Light of the Sun a) Levels of Unhiddenness outside the Cave b) Four Questions Concerning the Visible Connections of ἀλήθεια in the Occurrence of Liberation § 6. Idea and Light a) The Seeing of What-Being b) The Essence of Brightness: Transparency c) The Fundamental Accomplishment of the Idea: Letting-through the Being of Beings § 7. Light and Freedom. Freedom as Bond to the Illuminating § 8. Freedom and Beings. The Illuminating View as Projection of Being (Exemplified by Nature, History, Art and Poetry) § 9. The Question Concerning the Essence of Truth as Unhiddenness a) Gradations of Unhiddenness. The Ideas as the Primordially Unhidden and Most Beingful of Beings b) The Ideas as What Is Sighted by a Pre-modelling Perceiving within the Occurrence of Unhiddenness c) Deconcealment as the Fundamental Occurrence of the Ex-istence of Man D. The Fourth Stage (516 e 3–517 a 6): the Freed Prisoner’s Return to the Cave § 10. The φιλoσοφοϛ as Liberator of the Prisoners. His Act of Violence, His Endangerment and Death § 11. The Fulfilment of the Fate of Philosophizing as an Occurrenceof ἀλήθεια: Separation andTogetherness of the Manifest andthe Hidden (Being and Illusion) 2 The Idea of the Good and Unhiddenness § 12. The Idea of the Good as the Highest Idea: Empowerment of Being and Unhiddenness § 13. Seeing as ὁρᾶν and νοεῖν Seeing and the Seeable in the Yokeof the Light § 14. The Good: Empowerment of That upon Which All Depends § 15. The Question Concerning the Essence of Truth as the Question Concerning the History of Man’s Essence and His pa.de.a 3 The Question Concerning the Essence of Untruth § 16. The Waning of the Fundamental Experience of ἀλήθεια. The Philosophical Obligation to Re-awaken It: the Abiding Origin of § 17. The Neglect of the Question Concerning the Essence of Hiddenness. Transformation of the Question Concerning the Essence § 18. Justification of the ‘Detour’ Preliminary Clarification of Fundamental Concepts: ψεῦδοϛ, λήθη and ἀ-λήθεια § 19. Summary: Unhiddenness and Being; the Question Concerning the Essence of Untruth PART TWO An Interpretation of Plato’s Theaetetus with Respect to the Question of the Essence of Untruth 1 Preliminary Considerations § 20. The Question Concerning the Essence of ἐπιστήμη: Man’s Attack on the Self-evidences of His Self-understanding § 21. Fundamental Content of the Greek Concept of Knowledge: Fusion of Know-how and Seeing Having-Present of That Which Is Pre 2 Beginning of the Discussion of Theaetetus’ First Answer: .p.st.μ.. Is a.s..s.. Critical Demarcation of the Essence of Percept § 22. Aἴσθησις as φαντασία.The Self-showing in Its Presencing § 23. The Senses: Only Passage-way, Not Themselves What Perceives in Human Perception § 24. The Soul as the Relationship That Unifies the Perceivable and Holds It Open § 25. Colour and Sound: Both Perceived at Once in διανοεῖν 3 Stepwise Unfolding of Perceiving in All Its Connections A. Step One: Perceiving of Beings as Such § 26. A Strange ‘Excess’ in the Perceived over and above the Sensory Given: ‘Being’ and Other Characters as the Necessary but Unnoticed Co-perceived B. Step Two: Inquiry into What Perceives the Excess in the Perceived § 27. The Sense-Organs: No Passage-way to the Commonin Everything Perceived § 28. The Soul as What Views the Κοινά in διανοεῖν C. Step Three: The Soul’s Relation to Being as Striving for Being § 29. The Priority of Striving for Being in the Soul as Relationship to the Perceived § 30. Having and Striving a) Apparent Incompatibility between Striving and Perception b) Losing Oneself in Immediate Perception c) Non-regarding and Non-conceptual Perceiving d) Free Possession of Truth (Knowledge) Only in the Relationship of Striving towards What Is Striven for; Inauthentic and Authentic Having § 31. Inauthentic and Authentic Striving. The ἔρως as Striving for Being § 32. More Determinate Conception of Striving for Being a) More Essential Unfolding of the Determinations of Being in Attunedness b) The Taking-in-View of the Connections of Being c) Interpretation of Connections of Being in the συλλογισμός d) Initial Clarification of the Connection of Being to Time § 33. The ‘Excess’: Not an Addition to What Is Sensed, but the Conceptual Highlighting of Distinct Characters of Being in the Sphere of Striving for Being D. Step Four: Being-Human as Historical in Staking and Stance (pa.de.a) § 34. The Rooting of ‘Abstract’ Characters of Being in the Unity of Bodily Existence. Their Difference from ‘Self-less’ Nature.Being out Beyond Oneself in Primordial Yearning § 35. Inadequacy of Theaetetus’ First Answer. Perception StillMore Than Perception. Broadened Experience Possibility of αἴσθησιςas the Condition of the Possibilityof Unhiddenness 4 Towards a Discussion of Theaetetus’ Second Answer: ἐπιστήμη Is ἀληθὴς δόξα. The Various Meanings of δόξα § 36. The Emergence of the Second Answer out of the Question of Untruth § 37. Double-Meaning of d..a (View): Look and Opinion § 38. Two More Faces of δόξα: The Wavering between Letting-Appear (εῖδος) and Distorting (ψεῦδος) 5 The Question Concerning the Possibility of the ψευδὴς δόξα A. Preparatory Investigation: Impossibility of the Phenomenon of the ψευδὴς δόξα § 39. The Horizon of the Preparatory Investigationas Excluding in Advance the Possibility of a ψευδὴς δόξα a) First Perspective: Alternatives of Knowing and Not-knowing b) Second Perspective: Alternatives of Being and Non-being c) Third Perspective: The ψευδὴς δόξα as ἀλλοδοξία (Substitution instead of Confusion) § 40. Result of the Preliminary Investigation: Λόγος-Character of the δόξα; Its Aporia: Suppression of the Phenomenon through t B. Main Investigation: Saving the Phenomenon of the ψευδὴς δόξα § 41. Retracting the Guiding Perspectives of the Preliminary Investigation in Favour of Previously Denied Intermediate Phenomena § 42. New Characteristics of the Soul: Two Similes a) Simile of the Wax; Keeping-in-Mind b) An Example: the Feldberg Tower; Having-Present and Making-Present c) Simile of the Aviary; Modes of Retaining § 43. Confirmation of the Connection between αἴσθησις andδιάνοια through Broadening the Field of the Present § 44. Clarification of the Double-Meaning of δόξα: Its Forking into Having-Present and Making-Present § 45. Enabling of Mis-taking through the Forking of the δόξα § 46. The Shifting of Ontological Failure into the Incorrectness of the Proposition. What Remained Un-happened in the History of the Concept of Truth Appendix Supplementary Materials from Heidegger’s Notes Editor’s Afterword English–German Glossary Greek–English Glossary Machine generated contents note: Translator's Foreword \ Publisher's Note \ I. The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview \ Preliminary Remarks \ Introduction \ Part I. The Idea of Philosophy as Primordial Science \ 1. The Search for a Methodological Way \ 2. Critique of Teleological-Critical Method \ Part II. Phenomenology as Pre-Theoretical Primordial Science \ 1. Analysis of the Structure of Experience \ 2. The Problem of Presuppositions \ 3. Primordial Science as Pre-Theoretical Science \ II. Phenomenology and Transcendental Philosophy of Value \ Introduction \ Part I. Historical Presentation of the Problem \ 1. The Genesis of Philosophy of Value as the Cultural Philosophy of the Present \ 2. Windelband's Grounding of Modern Transcendental Philosophy of Value \ 3. The Further Development of Value-Philosophy by Rickert \ Part II. Critical Considerations \ Appendix I: On the Nature of the University and Academic Study \ Appendix II: The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview \ Short Glossary \ Index. "Martin Heidegger is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th Century. A major figure in the development of phenomenology, his work also profoundly influenced many of the intellectual movements that followed in his wake, from Sartre's Existentialism to Derrida's deconstructionism. Towards the Definition of Philosophy brings together two seminal lectures that mark a breakthrough moment in Heidegger's thought and introduces the major themes that he would develop in his opus Being and Time"-- "Two breakthrough lectures from one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th Century introduce key themes in the thought of Martin Heidegger"-- "Martin Heidegger is one of the most important and influential philosophers of the 20th Century. A major figure in the development of phenomenology, his work also profoundly influenced many of the intellectual movements that followed in his wake, from Sartre's Existentialism to Derrida's deconstructionism. Towards the Definition of Philosophy brings together two seminal lectures that mark a breakthrough moment in Heidegger's thought and introduces the major themes that he would develop in his opus Being and Time"-- Provided by publisher