Martin Heidegger: The Metaphysics of German Idealism

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2 Title Page The Metaphysics of German Idealism A New Interpretation of Schelling’s Philosophical Investigations into the Essence of Human Freedom and the Matters Connected Therewith (1809) Martin Heidegger Translated by Ian Alexander Moore and Rodrigo Therezo polity

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4 Translators’ Introduction

5 Introduction: The Necessity of a Historical Thinking§ 1 Schelling’s Treatise as the Peak of the Metaphysics of German Idealism § 2 Historical Thinking, Historiographic Explanation, Systematic Reflection § 3 Elucidations of the Title of the Treatise § 4 The Organization of the Treatise § 5 Brief Excursus on a Further Misgiving (the Historiographic – the Current – That Which Has Been)

6 Part I: Preliminary Reflection on the Distinction Between Ground and Existence§ 6 The Core Section of the Treatise: The Distinction between Essence Insofar as it Exists and Essence Insofar as it is Merely Ground of Existence § 7 The Organization of the Preliminary Reflection Chapter 1 The Conceptual–Historical Elucidation of Ground and Existence§ 8 Essentia and Existentia § 9 “Existence” and “Philosophy of Existence” (K. Jaspers) § 10 Kierkegaard’s Concept of Existence § 11 Kierkegaard, “Philosophy of Existence,” and “Being and Time” (1927) § 12 Preliminary Interpretation of Schelling’s Concept of Existence § 13 The Inceptive Impetuses Determining the Essence of Ground and Their Historical Transformation Chapter 2 The Root of Schelling’s Distinction between Ground and Existence § 14 Elucidation of the Essential Determination of Being as Willing § 15 Being as Willing as the Root of the Distinction between Ground and Existence Chapter 3 The Inner Necessity of Schelling’s Distinction between Ground and Existence Chapter 4 The Various Formulations of Schelling’s Distinction between Ground and Existence § 16 The Proper Aim of the Interpretation of the Freedom Treatise: Reaching the Fundamental Position of the Metaphysics of German Idealism. Evil and the System § 17 Transition from the Preliminary Reflection to the Interpretation of the Core Section of the Treatise and of the Latter Itself

7 Part II: An Interpretation of the Core Section, “The Elucidation of the Distinction” Between Ground and Existence§ 18 The “Elucidation of the Distinction” as the Presentation of Beings as a Whole (God, World, Human) Chapter 1 The Reflection that Takes God as a Starting Point § 19 The Direct Elucidation: The Presentation of the Being of Beings “in” God. Philosophy as Unconditional Knowledge of the Absolute in Contrast to Theology and Mathematics. The Various Senses of the Word “Nature” § 20 The Analogical Elucidation: Presentation of the Correspondence Between the Stations of the Being of the Absolute § 21 The Circularity of the Distinction Between Ground and Existence § 22 Summary of What Was Said about the Distinction in God § 23 Excursus: The Unconditional Precedence of the Certainty (That Is to Say, Concurrently: the Beingness) of the Absolute Chapter 2 The Reflection that Takes its Point of Departure from Things § 24 The Ground in God as “Originary Yearning” § 25 Creation as Formation through the Imagination; the Creature as “Image” Chapter 3 The Reflection that Takes its Point of Departure from the Human§ 26 The Necessity of Creation and the Essence of the Human as the Proper Creature in which God Himself Reveals Himself § 27 Human Will as “Divine Glimpse of Life” and “Seed of God”

8 Conclusion: Overview § 28 The “Distinction” and the Essence of Freedom and of Human Freedom in Particular § 29 The “Distinction” in its Full Essence § 30 The “Distinction” and the Essence of the Human § 31 The Essence of Evil § 32 Evil and the System § 33 The System and the Truth (Certainty) of Beings as a Whole § 34 What Confrontation Means with Respect to Metaphysics

9 Recapitulations and Course of the Interpretation Recapitulation of 14 January Recapitulation of 21 January Recapitulation of 28 January Recapitulation of 4 February Recapitulation of 11 February Recapitulation of 18 February Recapitulation of 25 February Recapitulation of 4 March Recapitulation of 11 March

10 AppendixPreliminary Glimpses and Directives Transitional Reflection on Hegel The Confrontation with the Metaphysics of German Idealism and with Metaphysics in General Overview of the Transformation of Being as “Actuality” Supplement (Leibniz)

11 Editor’s Afterword

12 GlossariesGerman–English Glossary English–German Glossary Greek/Latin–English Lexicon

13 End User License Agreement

1 Cover

2 Table of Contents

3 Title Page

4 Copyright

5 Translators’ Introduction

6 Introduction: The Necessity of a Historical Thinking

7 Begin Reading

8 Conclusion: Overview

9 Recapitulations and Course of the Interpretation

10 Appendix

11 Editor’s Afterword

12 Glossaries

13 End User License Agreement

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Martin Heidegger

Translated by Ian Alexander Moore and Rodrigo Therezo

polity

First published in German as GA vol. 49, Die Metaphysik des deutschen Idealismus. Zur erneuten Auslegung von Schelling : Philosophische Untersuchungen über das Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit und die damit zusammenhängenden Gegenstände (1809) © Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, 1991. 2nd, revised edition 2006.