The Atheism of Heidegger, Sartre, and Thomas Aquinas

Theodore J. Kisiel, an engineer and philosopher, now teaching at Canisius College, was an Assistant Professor at the University of Dayton when he offered this interesting response to Father Elbert\u27s views on existentialism. The points at issue are worthy of further dialogue

L'indication formelle de la facticité: vers une "grammaontologie" heideggerérienne du temps

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Mark C. Taylor, Tears

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The Creativity of Translation and its Universality in the Hermeneutic Process

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Held Egger Reads Augustine on Fear and Trembling

Martin Heidegger\u27s reading of the Pauline Christian Augustine against the Neoplatonic Augustine in his lecture course of Summer 1921 radicalizes the human search for goodness to the stark realities of the historically contingent human being finding herself totally dependent on the historically revealed God even for the initiatives of that search. Centering his gloss on Book Ten of the Confessions, Heidegger focuses his interpretation on the distressed concern (cura) that defines the human heart, in contrast to the Platonic eros deliberately abstracted from its this-worldly context. Cura is etymologically related to quaero, seeking and questing, in order to highlight two other Augustinian themes that favor the historically situated sense of Christianity. I have become a question to myself and The life of man on earth is a trial. The final theme of this constellation centered on distressed care is the fear that necessarily accompanies perfect love. The competing biblical texts, \u27\u27The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever and Perfect love casts out fear are brought into hermeneutic harmony by Augustine\u27s distinction between timor servilis and timor castus, where the latter, as pure and noble fear, is a perfect fear that must remain forever in the relationship of gratuitous gratitude between finite humanity and the Absolute God of History. By way of summary, Heidegger\u27s two conceptual schematisms on becoming a Christian, one Pauline and the other Augustinian, are compared and contrasted. Viewing the Augustinian diagram through the Pauline diagram serves to cull out the quietistic elements stemming from Augustine\u27s Neoplatonism and highlight the tensed elements of acute anticipation that belong to the enduring Christian experience