Heidegger's Pot - The Gathering of the Four Elements of Heaven, Earth, God and Man

摘要

Heidegger, as a master of German existential philosophy, generally believes that he has experienced three stages: early, middle and late. The thoughts and investigations of existence are the focus of Heidegger. The more important part of it is his long-term exploration and reflection on the existence of things, and it runs through his entire thought evolution. In the late Heidegger, he combined his thoughts on things with the traceability of etymology, and tried to find the original meaning of the language by tracing the etymology of the language. Based on this, he examined the essence of the object. "Summoning the world through language" is an important tendency of Heidegger's thought in this period. In Heidegger's late works of thought, especially in the thinking of things, one can't ignore the article "Das Ding" (The Thing) he wrote in 1950. In this article, Heidegger uses the pot as a metaphor to reveal the nature of the pot through a rigorous logical deduction and etymological investigation, thus exposing the nature of the thing. In the end, in Heidegger, the existence of pots and the thing is ultimately positioned in a gathering of heaven, earth, god and man. Therefore, the close reading and interpretation of "The Thing" will help us to describe the thought context of Heidegger's late thoughts, as well as a glimpse of his late thoughts.