Heideggera interpretacja zła

Abstract

Heidegger’s attempt to understand evil is inherently linked with a criticism of traditional metaphysics and an attempt to build existential analitic. In as much as traditional metaphysics has forgotten - according to Heidegger - about being, so much it has contributed to the building of nihilism. Its incapacity was most expressly manifested in Nietzschean proclamation about the death of God. The author shows the essence of Heidegger’s criticism as well as his attempt at a new way to think Being. This new way would always undergo development, yet it made the author of Sein und Zeit claim that being a man consists in taking the risk incessantly. Man becomes a rift, through which Being itself is revealed. Violence and force characterize the essence of human being, yet they should not be evaluated from the point of view of moral good and evil. Violence and force are, as it were, the price for a possibility to win Being from being. Such anthropological approach makes it that Heidegger cannot put forward the “problem of evil” Limiting thinking to the horizon of the truth of Being leads to the relativization of freedom and captivity, truth and falsehood, good and evil. Therefore Heidegger was in trouble to articulate in full voice a true judgement about the Holocaust. At best one can say that Heidegger perceived evil as a way to reveal Being, but did not ask about evil.