Artigo Revisado por pares

Thinking the Earth

2016; Philosophy Documentation Center; Volume: 38; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5840/enviroethics201638437

ISSN

2153-7895

Autores

Vincent Blok,

Tópico(s)

Space Science and Extraterrestrial Life

Resumo

Quentin Meillassoux's call for realism is a call for a new interest in the Earth as un-correlated being in philosophy. Unlike Meillassoux, Martin Heidegger has not been criticized for being a correlationist. To the contrary, his concept of the Earth has to be understood as un-correlated being, as it is opposed to the world as correlated being. First, this interpretation of Heidegger's concept of the Earth solves various problems of interpretation that are present in the secondary literature. Second, Heidegger's characterization of the Earth in the end remains unthought in his work. Third, in the age of global warming Meillassoux's call for realism can help to conceive planet Earth as the ontic-ontological origin of the Heideggerian strife between Earth and world.

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