Fiinţa la răscruce. Un răspuns teologic la întrebarea fundamentală a metafizicii
The being at the crossroads. A theological answer to the fundamental question of metaphysics

Summary/Abstract: The subject of this essay is that the lecture “What is metaphysics?” hides a key to the interpretation of Heideggerian philosophy, a key that makes it possible to advance with one more step in the understanding and definition of metaphysics and which consists in a characterization of nothingness, obtained through an explanation of its relationship with man, with the human being and with God. The text starts from the main question of Heideggerian philosophy, the one regarding the meaning of the being. The short step preceding the attempt to solve this problem is an analysis of the word “meaning”. Thus, the emphasis falls, rather than on the being, on the concept of meaning, which appears as sense, value, and purpose. An analysis of the meaning of the being cannot take place outside the horizon opened by these three fronts. Nothingness is understood as the (non)meaning of the being, and the real – albeit absurd – possibility of talking about it is explained by man’s drive towards a meaning that crushes him under the absurdity of nihilism because it does not overwhelm him with the ineffable brilliance of apophatism.

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