Time and Law

Abstract

The seemingly "inextricable" mutual entanglement of history (in the sense of the German word Historie) and the play of power dissolves itself when thinking, under the sway of technique, moves beyond the horizon of metaphysic, and turns to question the unconcealment of being (in the sense of the German das Sein), that is, when man lets time become the law of his essence. Only so would a history (in the sense of the German word Geschichte), i.e. freedom, happen again, and rescue modern man from his otherwise destinyless age.