A serenidade e a abertura para o sagrado no pensamento de Martin Heidegger

Abstract

In this research we seek to develop the relation between the question of the releasement (Gelassenheit) and the openness to the holy in the thought of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976). From the articulation between the metaphysics and the question of the technique, this text investigates in what sense the last stage of the metaphysics, which, according to Heidegger, is characterized by the dominance of the being over the Being, took the technical expansion up to the planetary level, bringing consequences like the uprooting of the human essence, and also the hiddenness of the holy from the world. The very dominance of the being over the Being shows itself up through the hegemony of the calculative thought over the meditative thought. Both types of thought rule the essence itself of the modern technique, and they are important and necessary. However, Heidegger warns that the calculative thought is becoming absolute and due to this fact the technique presents itself as the only way by which the man happens in the world. According to the philosopher, this is the great danger of the technique. But, according to Hölderlin, “where the danger grows, also grows what saves”. What saves is the thought itself that meditates, that thinks about the hidden sense that rules the technical world.The releasement (Gelassenheit) points to the possibility to overcome the unconditional dominance of the being over the Being, as it is “letting being be” (sein lassen) before the technical world. “Letting being be” doesn’t mean to have an attitude of apathy regarding to the technique at the point to leave of using the technological objects, rather it assume an attitude of detachment in relation to such objects. The releasement points out to a new manifestation of the Holy of the world, and also to a new rooting of the human essence. While dwells in the proximities of the Being, human being remains opened to the Ereignis itself, to the giving-itself (Es gibt) proper of the Being, in which happens the common-appurtenance between man and Being.