Što je to suvremeno doba?
What Time is Contemporary?

Summary/Abstract: Having analysed the essence of modern time on the example of Heidegger’s philosophy the author concludes as follows: »Today such thinking is indispensable and necessary that thinks knowledge with a scientific and technical mark, a knowledge that mediates between all the fundamental aspects of the contemporary world and oneself as well as among themselves, and as therefore that which unites and defines the contemporary era. We can think that centre, that middle that holds the modern world, i.e. that which is, within itself, if at the same time we think its "where from" and "where to", that is, if we understand it historically. Namely, that modern, scientifical technical world is and exists historically as it finds itself and is on the way from some "where from" to some "where to". That "where from" is known to us, it is ontological metaphysics in all its historical alterations, and that "where to", and that is only intimation and guessing, is a possible turn of the scientific and technical world into a new epoch of Being that we call "event". This contemporary time of ours, the world of science and technology, can be called something in between, a passage which is the period of the extreme forgetfulness of Being and as such the time of the extreme impediment of the being of man as man. The world of science and technology came into being and began in thinking and with thinking and will end with thinking or in the devastation of the human world or in the transition into a different destiny of Being and of man, for both have always been one; and this is why all depends on the way of thinking.

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