Graduation Year
2009
Document Type
Thesis
Degree
M.A.
Degree Granting Department
Philosophy
Major Professor
Charles Guignon, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Stephen Turner, Ph.D.
Committee Member
Michael Gibbons, Ph.D.
Keywords
Aristotle, Besinnung, Gelassenheit, Logos, Authenticity
Abstract
This paper attempts to mark out new ground in the connections between the philosophical writings of Martin Heidegger and Aristotle by posing an interesting question that has never been addressed. Both writers devote much of their early thoughts to questions concerning human beings' practical ways of understanding. However, in their later thoughts Heidegger and Aristotle suddenly seem to completely change the subject to ideal or transcendental ways of understanding. At first glance these ideal modes of human apprehension seem to have nothing to do with each other. Yet, Heidegger and Aristotle seem to have similar motives for turning away from the practical realm and towards a transcendental realm, and they seem to have similar outcomes. My investigation of their respective motives and outcomes has led me to believe that although there are some similarities that are thought provoking, they are not strong enough to conclude that Heidegger's later writings are connected to his recovery of Aristotelian ideas. Given that the core of Heidegger's early questions of Being can be interpreted as a retrieval of Aristotle, to be able to demarcate the point at which Heidegger ceases his attempts at this recovery may allow us to examine the differences in Heidegger's later thought concerning Being.
Scholar Commons Citation
Altman, Megan E., "Praxis and Theōria: Heidegger’s “Violent” Interpretation" (2009). USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/etd/1826
