What Did Heidegger Mean by ‘Only a God Can Save Us?’
What Did Heidegger Mean by ‘Only a God Can Save Us?’ by Bert Olivier at Brownstone Institute When Martin Heidegger gave an interview to the German news magazine, Der Spiegel (The Mirror) in 1966, on condition that it would only be published after his death, no one could anticipate the sentence he uttered in the course of this event, which would become the title by which the interview has been known, namely, ‘Only a god can save us.’ Save us from what? And why ‘a god’ instead of ‘God?’ The answers to these questions would shock some readers and puzzle others. In the case of the first question…
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