Safranski, Between Good and Evil
H writes in a conservative catholic weekly of the unveiling of a monument to Abraham a Santa Clara:
H writes in a conservative catholic weekly of the unveiling of a monument to Abraham a Santa Clara:
"Young Heidegger argues against the "decadence" of his age...of a "stifling sultriness," of being a period of "outward culture," of "fast living," of an "all-overturning innovation mania," of "momentary excitements," predominantly of "the mad leaping over the more profound spiritual content of life and art"" (20)
"the great illusion of modernity, which hopes to bring the "I to unlimited development"
Truth is always personally difficult: an act of self-renunciation. Truth as such, is recognized by the fact that it "resists us, challenges us, transforms us" (21) "This argument is worth remembering, for Heidegger will be seen to adhere to it. Exaction and discomfort remain criteria of truth, even though later the supposed possession of truth under the tutelage of faith becomes to him an easy way out and hence a betrayal of truth. The difficult and unpalatable element that one should demand of oneself is therefore the (previously suspect) freedom that faces up to its metaphysical homelessness and has no need of protection by the rigid truths of a believing realism" (22)
Truth is always personally difficult: an act of self-renunciation. Truth as such, is recognized by the fact that it "resists us, challenges us, transforms us" (21) "This argument is worth remembering, for Heidegger will be seen to adhere to it. Exaction and discomfort remain criteria of truth, even though later the supposed possession of truth under the tutelage of faith becomes to him an easy way out and hence a betrayal of truth. The difficult and unpalatable element that one should demand of oneself is therefore the (previously suspect) freedom that faces up to its metaphysical homelessness and has no need of protection by the rigid truths of a believing realism" (22)
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