Limits of the Demonstrable - Heidegger

I ask in return:  What does ratio, nous, noein, apprehending, mean?  What do ground and principle and especially principle of all principles mean?  Can this ever be sufficiently determined unless we experience aletheia [truth] in a Greek manner as unconcealment and then, above and beyond the Greek, think it as the opening of self-concealing?  As long as ratio and the rational still remain questionable in what is their own, talk about irrationalism is unfounded.  The technological scientific rationalization ruling the present age justifies itself every day more surprisingly by its immense results.  But this says nothing about what first grants the possibility of the rational and the irrational.  The effect proves the correctness of technological scientific rationalization.  But is the manifest character of what is exhausted by what is demonstrable?  Doesn't the insistence on what is demonstrable block the way to what is?



-M.H.  The End of Philosophy.


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