Being Is An Issue For One.

In The Work Of Art The Truth Of An Entity Has Set Itself To Work. ‘to Set’ Means Here: To Bring To A Stand. Some Particular Entity, A Pair Of Peasant Shoes, Comes In The Work To Stand In The Light Of Its Being. The Being Of The Being Comes Into The Steadiness Of Its Shining. The Nature Of Art Would Then Be This: The Truth Of Being Setting Itself To Work.

Dasein Is A Being That Does Not Simply Occur Among Other Beings. Rather It Is Ontically Distinguished By The Fact That In Its Being This Being Is Concerned About Its Very Being. Thus It Is Constitutive Of The Being Of Dasein To Have, In Its Very Being, A Relation Of Being To This Being.

The Will To Mastery Becomes All The More Urgent The More Technology Threatens To Slip From Human Control

I Know That Everything Essential And Great Originated From The Fact That The Human Being Had A Homeland And Was Rooted In Tradition.

The Threat To Man Does Not Come In The First Instance From The Potentially Lethal Machines And Apparatus Of Technology. The Actual Threat Has Already Affected Man In His Essence. The Rule Of Enframing Threatens Man With The Possibility That It Could Be Denied To Him To Enter Into A More Original Revealing And Hence To Experience The Call Of A More Primal Truth