Heidegger's Philosophy of Religion: From God to the Gods

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absence of God, 4, 155, 273–74. See also gods absolute foundation, 119 actualitas, 113, 271–72 actualization, 52–59, 74–75, 113, 243 actualization-sense. See senseorientations actual vs. the possible, 242–45 actus purus, 96, 113 “Age of the World Picture, The” (Heidegger), 196–97, 204 al∂theia, 192–93, 209–10, 251 ambition, worldly, 63 ambitio saeculi, 63 “Anaximander Fragment” (Anaximander), 194 another beginning, 160, 176, 184 Anschauung, 22 anthropology, 116, 122–23, 197–99 anthropomorphic interpretation, 206–07 Antichrist, 55 Aquinas, Thomas. See St. Thomas Aquinas Aristotle, 6, 18, 95–109, 104–09, 270–71 “As When on a Holiday” (Hölderlin), 216–19 atheism, 5, 28, 189–90, 210, 266–69 attraction and withdrawal, 245 attuning, longing for, 261–62 aufheben, 83–84 Augustine. See St. Augustine “Augustine and Neo-Platonism” (Heidegger), 59 authentic entity, 98–102. See also highest entity authentic future, 73 Basic Problems of Phenomenology, The (Heidegger), 238 beata vita/beatific life, 59–65 beauty, 60 becoming, 146 being: as actualitas, 113, 271–72; Aquinas on, 114; Aristotle on, 98–103; brauchen of, 194; and Dasein, 244–45; and divinity, 210; and entities, 13, 99–100, 159, 250, 272; essence of, 60, 160; and faith, 77; finitude of, 174; forgetfulness of, 161–62, 169, 207–08; and God, 193–95; of gods, 164–70; Greek philosophers on, 248; ground of, 107–12; highest, 107–12, 119, 200; historicality of, 160, 183, 186, 213; history of, 166–67; and the holy, 9, 192, 205, 276–77; and human subjectivity, 125; as idea, 139–40; and logos, 250; meaning of, 130–32; and metaphysics, 159; nearness to, 206–11; ontic and ontological questions, 93–112, 103; philosophy as a way of, 41; and the possible, Index 329 330 Index 178–79; and religion, 234–35; science of, 41, 68, 102; as theological and ontological question, 93–112; thinking of, 4, 189–95, 271; and the will to power, 147. See also highest being Being and Time (Heidegger), 30–31, 67–74, 105, 174–75, 231, 242–43 Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis) (Heidegger), 157–60, 171–73 Bezugsinn, 44 Braig, Carl, 12–13 brauchen, 194 “Bread and Wine” (Hölderlin), 208 Bultmann, Rudolf, 30, 197 calling, 244, 247 care, 238 carnal life, 62–63 category-theory, 17 Catholicism, 11–12, 21–22 causa causarum, 136 causality, 114, 117–18 causa prima, 114, 136 causa sui, 115, 119, 124, 127–28 causes and grounds, 99–100 certainty, 197–98 Christ, coming of, 54–55, 74, 223 Christendom, 201–02 Christianity: and actualization, 54–59; and Christianness, 71; and the coming of Christ, 54–55; and degodization, 199–205; and entities, 161–62; and experience of life, 36–37; and faith, 71–77, 201; God of, 161–64; and historicality, 74–76; and historicity, 56; and its original facticity, 51–59; in the Middle Ages, 16; Nietzsche on, 138–39, 163–64; and nihilism, 161–63; and Platonism, 138–39, 163; and sense-orientations, 52 Christianness, 71, 133, 201 coming of the beginning, 219, 223 communication, 255 concealment, 192–93, 232. See also unconcealment conceptual thinking, 37 concupiscentia carnis, 62–63 concupiscentia oculorum, 63 conditions of possibility, 130 Confessions (Augustine), 60 contemplation, 95, 100–101 content-sense. See sense-orientations Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) (Heidegger), 157–60 conversation, 258 creation, 114, 136, 161 Critique of Pure Reason (Kant), 169 curiosity, 242–43 Dasein: ancient Greeks and, 209–10; and another beginning, 176; and being, 244–45; and desire, 244; existential characteristics of, 85; and faith, 70–77; and gods, 167–68; historicality of, 7, 156, 160, 268, 274; man’s change into, 7, 168, 186; and the possible, 179, 239–45; relationship to God, 190; and self-understanding, 78; and will, 240 Das Problem der Sünde bei Luther (Heidegger), 30 Das Realitätsproblem in der modernen Philosophie (Heidegger), 14 death, 183–85, 211–12, 221. See also God, death of degodization, 199–205 Der Spiegel interview, 167, 223 desire, 238, 243–45 destiny, 131, 207 “Die Grundbegriffe der antiken Philosophie” (Heidegger), 97 Die Kategorien und Bedeutungslehre des Duns Scotus (Heidegger), 16 Die Lehre vom Urteil im Psychologismus (Heidegger), 14 Dilthey, Wilhelm, 123 divine, the: and the holy, 209–11, 224, 276–77; thinking of, 189–95. See also highest entity divinities, 211–12, 223–24, 237, 275 doxa, 262 dwelling on earth, 225–29 earth, 211–12, 275 Eckhart, Johannes, 18 “Einleitung in die Phänomenologie der Religion” (Heidegger), 20 Elucidations (Heidegger...