Nature and normativity in Martin Heidegger's ontological hermeneutics – part II

Abstract

In the first half of this paper we presented some criticisms against Heidegger's existential approach of nature. We made also a characterization of his sketched program of a hermeneutic of nature. The issues that concern us in this final part are the formal indications for an articulating of the mode of encounter with nature in an original sense. Nature in primordial sense appears by the sharing of the human intentionality with that of the living organisms. The dynamics of this sharing allow us to identify both an emergent and a retentive aspect of the nature. After considering the notion of world-formation (Weltbildung), we briefly point out the relevance of the primordial notion of nature for a normative interpretation of the human openness to the meanings of being.