%0 Journal Article
%T The Root of Heidegger's Concern for the Earth at the Consummation of Metaphysics: The Nietzsche Lectures
%A Dale Allen Wilkerson
%J Cosmos and History : the Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy
%D 2005
%I Cosmos and History Publishing Co-op.
%X This essay attempts to situate Heidegger¡¯s critique of modernity¡¯s technological worldview within the conceptual context and time frame of his Nietzsche lectures of the 1930¡¯s. Heidegger discovers in Nietzsche¡¯s thought the ¡°consummation of metaphysics¡± and in Nietzsche¡¯s concept of ¡°will to power¡± an articulation of the world dominating principle reflecting modernity¡¯s comportment with beings as mere resources for consumption. Such a principle voices the utter destruction of Being and obliterates any possibility for the more considerate disclosure of beings in a non-technological way.
%K Heidegger
%K Technology
%K History of Ideas
%U http://www.cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/4