Heidegger- Machination and Lived Experience



from Contributions to Philosophy, Indiana U. Press, 1999:


67.  Machination and Lived Experience

Machination is the domination of making and what is made...machination relates to techne.  At the same time machination contains the Christian-biblical interpretation of beings as ens creatum - regardless of whether this is taken in a religious or a secular way.

It is very difficult to grasp historically the emergence of what is machinationally ownmost to beings, because basically it has been effectively in operations since the first beginning of Western thinking (more precisely, since the collapse of alatheia).

The step taken by Descartes is already a first and decisive consequence, a 'compliance' by which machination assumes power as transformed truth (correctness), namely as certainty.

What machinationally holds sway in the shape of ens as ens certum must first be shown. In the course of overcoming metaphysics, the certum must be laid out in terms of machination...

'Lived-experience' corresponds to machination (physis - techne - kinosis - nous) - a correspondence which was long held back and only now finally emerges...

What does machination mean?  That which is let loose into its own shackles...The pattern of generally calculable explainability, by which everything draws nearer to everything else equally and becomes completely alien to itself - yes, totally other than just alien.  The relation of non-relationality.


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