Basic Notions of Metaphysics: Above and Below
In this podcast we talk about the traditional notion of Being and its unwarranted “deconstruction” by modern philosophers, premier among them being Martin Heidegger. As a starting point we take a passage from Boethius’ De Trinitate on how Being can never be a subject or substrate and juxtapose it to Heidegger’s “phenomenological destruction of traditional ontology” which claims that Tradition does precisely the opposite. From there on we point out the importance of spacial metaphors in metaphysics, where what is “groundless” can mean both something below and something above. It is our contention that thinkers in the vein of Heidegger confuse this metaphysical above and below, and seek abyss where traditional thought sought heaven.
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Branko Malić
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