“We ask: How long then?  So long that it even reaches beyond our present, godless age (Heidegger, Elucidations of Holderlin’s Poetry, 211)” We are looking at a poet from the lens of our secular age, Heidegger’s and Hölderlin’s theological language conveying a message that is also available to a secular reader.  Hölderlin says “Gods who … Reclaiming Heidegger’s Holderlin for our Secular Age: An Interpretation of Heidegger’s Elucidations of Holderlin’s Poetry

Today on “X (Twitter)’ Kant Specialist Prof Anita Leirfall posted about the nature of being religious and here is my response: Jesus is speaking here of how his teaching is an innovation of the Judaism of his time: 43 “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ … What is Religious Life?

It seems that a straightforward reading of our New Testament sources does not equate Jesus with God as we would later see with the gospel of John and even later with the doctrine of the Trinity. For example, Jesus in desperate prayer in Gethsemane doesn’t seem to be praying to himself, just as Paul says … Is Jesus God? The Esther Allusion

This is my final post on Heidegger’s reading of Hölderlin’s Hymn The Ister in the lecture course of 1942. The measure of truth in Hölderlin’s river poetry is not found in the actuality of the geographical river, Hölderlin saying “Is there a measure on earth?  There is none (Hölderlin, In Beautiful Blue).”  Heidegger says we … (CONCLUSION) Heidegger’s Reading of Hölderlin’s Poem “The Ister”

I’ve been working to uncover the tragic insight into the human condition that Heidegger finds in Sophocles’ Antigone – in the tradition of Hölderlin’s translation and interpretation.  This is the arche tamechana, that against which nothing can avail. In Sophocles’ Antigone, the conflict between Creon and Antigone can be interpreted as a dramatic representation of … (Part 10) Heidegger’s Reading of Hölderlin’s Poem “The Ister”

*This post finishes up party 2 of Heidegger’s lecture course. The Parable of Vengeance   Mr. X and Mr. Y were parents of a boyfriend and girlfriend who were killed by a drunk driver.  Mr. X showed up every day for the trial, demanded justice in a victim impact statement, and felt he got it when … (Part 9) Heidegger’s Reading of Hölderlin’s Poem “The Ister”

Last time I did a standalone post on William Lane Craig and the Kalam Cosmological argument, but now back to Heidegger’s interpretation of Holderlin. Looking on to section 15, Heidegger draws a distinction between kalon and me kalon, “non beings / non beautiful.  We noted previously how the idea of the beautiful in Plato was … (Part 8) Heidegger’s Reading of Hölderlin’s Poem “The Ister”

My former professor and friend, the late Canadian postmodern philosopher David Goicoechea, gave this assessment of philosophy since Kierkegaard and Nietzsche in the Continental (as opposed to Analytic) tradition: Postmodernism and deconstruction are usually associated with a destruction of ethical values. The volumes in the Postmodern Ethics series demonstrate that such views are mistaken because … William Lane Craig and the Philosophy of the Kalam Cosmological Argument

One point that needs to be stressed is Heidegger’s thought of man as transitionally historical. For example, in this lecture course that was delivered at the height of the Nazi movement in 1942, Heidegger notes the central concepts of polis and apolis in the Antigone, and the central homelessness (apolis) caught between the will of … (Part 7) Heidegger’s Reading of Hölderlin’s Poem “The Ister”

Manifold is the uncanny, yet nothing more uncanny looms or stirs beyond the human being (Sophocles Antigone, Heidegger’s translation) I’m now into part 2/3 of Heidegger’s lecture course on Holderlin’s Hymn The Ister and we find out one of the reasons Holderlin is such an important poet for Heidegger is Holderlin’s interpretation/translation of Pindar and … (Part 6) Heidegger’s Reading of Hölderlin’s Poem “The Ister”