Miért nem éhes a Dasein Heideggernél? Heidegger és a mélyökológiai mozgalom
Why Is the Dasein Not Hungry? On Heidegger and the Deep Ecology Movement

Summary/Abstract: The radicalism of ecological thinking lies in the novelty of what it asserts not about Nature but about the role of Man and his duty. Nature itself is defenceless and even unworthy of moral defence by its definition, regarded as an object appropriate to the presuppositions of scientific investigation. Thus, the experiment of establishing ecophilosophy demands the destruction of the dualistic tradition with its concepts of “human” (the knower) and “nature” (the one to be known). The encounter with Heidegger’s thoughts was the most decisive inspiration in this regard. According to Heidegger, man cannot be conceived of as a special kind of living being among others, considering that his presence is the precondition for the revelation of Being as such. As he writes: “Does man not exist in such a way that the more primordially he is himself, he is precisely not only and not primarily himself? ...man is experienced in what drives him beyond himself...”

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