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A 3 page essay that discusses what Heidegger means in his text Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) when he talks about religion and God. The writer argues that this text appears to honor the concept of religious transcendentalism while arguing against conventional religious perspectives. No additional sources cited.
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in general, and religion specifically. In Enowning, the reader finds Heidegger at this most mystical and also his most creative. Due to the fact that Heidegger formulated his concepts in
German, the English-speaking reader almost certainly loses something of the flavor of Heideggers highly metaphysical concepts in translation. However, it appears that his text Enowning presents a unique perspective that
honors the concept of religious transcendentalism. In Enowning, Heidegger takes the stance that Western philosophy must make a new beginning due to the fact that ontological/theological tradition has avoided
the question of being, that is, of existence. In other words, why is there something rather than nothing? Why are we here? The new beginning that Heidegger wishes Western society
to move toward corrects this error and examines the state of "being" and the thought that this necessarily implies. Heideggers effort to consider the "truth of being" considers the process
he terms "enowning." The translators of Enowning (Eman and Maly) formulated this word from the German Ereignis, which literally means "event" (xx). They define "enowning" as a word that should
be understood as "indicative of a thinking that is enowned by being, being as enowning. Thus: from Enowning" (xxii). In this, Heidegger appears to refer to a metaphysical distinction
between knowing a subject and that object of thought and he presents this as an artificial distinction in that the object that one seeks to know is already inherent in
the symbols by which it is conceived. In other words, the human mind is incapable of conceiving of something outside the human realm of existence; of stepping outside of the
world of the senses in order to ascertain the perspective of an omniscient deity. This negative theology pictures human beings as coming into consciousness in a world that is "something"
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