Heidegger's fourfold consists of earth, sky, gods, and mortals. Heidegger understood the ‘earth’ as the ‘matter of existence,’ but not matter as conventionally understood as material, corporeal or concrete. The earth is the matter of existence in the sense that it designates a ‘non-quantifiable sensuous’ condition of experience grounded in phenomena, and not in the … Continue reading Heidegger’s Fourfold: Some hints of contemplative submission to the exo-planetary
'Being is the scandal of Nature waiting for a new host' 