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The technique, as epoch of metaphysics, is the historical a priori of the Seinsfrage, where human finiteness talks about the Thrownness of its existence, whose historical "here and now" is the epochal connection that we are able to see in the planetary tension of technical acting. The relationship between the finite thinking and Being passes through—and moves from—the finite configuration (the epoch) in which it is sent as destiny: the sending regards man himself in his being, and not something that "is added to him'. The name of this essential character of contemporary man, the truth of his "Being-in-world", for Heidegger is Gestell: the technical disposition-framing, upon which today seems that everything is weaved and arranged. In this ontological framework, the relationship with the sense of Being that modern man can regain (even to achieve a "free' relation with the destiny of Being as Gestell), depends on an Erörterung—a thinking replacing of the phenomenon of the world, as Gestell, in regard to the wordling of the world as Ereignis. To regain for a thought of calculation, the thought that has made itself calculation, an opening for the secret that exists in the unveiling, the inexplicability of the origin: the Offenheit für das Geheimnis. A measure of humility which is the ancient gesture of thought as Denken, that is also Andenken, memory and gratitude.

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-66911-3_2

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