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Heidegger interprets Aletheia as that which is “not hidden or forgotten,” or “uncovering,”36 and Alethes as “unhidden” (Unverborgen(es))37 and Aletheuein as ‘to take out of hiddenness (Verborgenheit), to uncover (entdecken).38 For Heidegger, the ‘essence of truth,’ the ‘openness of the open’ can be reached from two places:
a. from “reflection on the ground of the possibility of correctness (adaequatio)” and
b. from “recollection of the beginning (aletheia)”39
This has three implications:40
1. Truth is not constrained, as Plato posits, to explicit rational, theoretical assertions, beliefs and representation. The universe and its entities are unhidden, unconcealed, revealed, as much by moods as by understanding, by poiesis and noesis. That is, the rose as a rose as arose is revealed both by its animate nature and by the world’s perception of it at its every interval of becoming, of unfolding, of metamorphosing.
2. Truth belongs fundamentally to immanent reality 3⁄4 beings, being and the world 3⁄4 not just to thoughts and the said. Heidegger favours, in time, his neologism Entbergen, Entbergung, Entborgenheit, ‘to unconceal, uncolealing, unconcealment’ in replacement of ‘unhidden.’ Unlike Unverborgen, these express an active sense giving Alethes a renewed meaning: unconcealed, said of beings, and grasping the unconcealed as such, i.e. being unconcealing.’41 Beings, genuinely unconcealed, do not just concur with a proposition, assertion or representation; they also possess their very unfolding nature.
3. Truth explicitly presupposes concealment or hiddenness, not just luminosity in Plato’s sense. Because Dasein (the being of humans or human being as present, existing) dwells in ‘untruth as well as truth,’ it misinterprets things.42 ‘Untruth’ is not just ‘falsity’ or ‘hiddenness’: it is first, ‘disguisedness [Verstelltheit]’ of the truth43 and then, hiding, concealing (Verbergung).44
36 Heidegger. Die Frage nach der Wahrheit, ed. W. Biemel, 1976. 77 Section orally Trans. by M. Voght. From Logic: The Question of Truth. In Transl. T. Sheehan and R. Lilly. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 162
37 Heidegger. Being and Time. Trans. J. Macquarrie and E. Robinson. Oxford: Blackwell, 1962. 33, 219
38 Heidegger. Vol. 22: Die Grundbergriffe der antiken Philosophie. Ed. F.K. Blust, 1993. 1926 lectures. 25. Cited too in Michael Inwood’s A Heidegger Dictionary. Heidegger. Die Frage nach der Wahrheit, ed. W. Biemel, 1976. 77 Section orally Trans. by M. Voght. From Logic: The Question of Truth. In Transl. T. Sheehan and R. Lilly. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 131; and Being and Time. 33, 219.
39 Heidegger. Vol. 65: Beitrage zur Philosophie. Vom Ereignis. Ed. F.W. von Hermann, 1989. Manuscripts of 1936-8. 338 Cited too in Inwood, Michael. A Heidegger Dictionary. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
40 Inwood, Michael. A Heidegger Dictionary. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
41 Heidegger. Vol. 31. Vom Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit. Einleitung in die Philosophie. Ed. H. Tietjen, 1982. 1930 Lectures. 91
42 Heidegger. Being and Time. 222, 256
43 Heidegger. Vol. 31: Vom Wesen der menschlichen Freiheit. Einleitung in die Philosophie. Ed. H. Tietjen, 1982. 1930 Lectures. 91 44 Heidegger. Vol. 65: Beitrage zur Philosophie. Vom Ereignis. Ed. F.W. von Hermann, 1989. Manuscripts of 1936-8. 362
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