The Paradoxical Sameness of Concealment and Unconcealment:Heidegger's Interpretation of Plato through Laozi and Pre-Socratic Thought
The focus of this paper is the relation between two philosophical images:Laozi's"ravine"(gu)and Plato's"cave".From a Daoist perspective,what do the"shadows"in Plato's account of the cave mean?If the cave refers to a regime of truth,does the ravine refer to another regime of truth?I will argue that Heidegger's exploration of the allegory of the cave opens up a Daoist interpretation of the cave.Moreover,in his reconstruction of the internal structure of Plato and the pre-Socratic philosophers,a tendency to open his way of thinking to Daoism can be observed.Undoubtedly,Heidegger was inspired by the philosophy of Laozi and Zhuangzi,but more importantly,his interpretation of ancient Greek literature,in its internal movement,corresponds profoundly to their philosophy.By exploring Heidegger's thought from this perspective,we can overcome the mode of contrastive comparison between Greece and China,and move towards their transcultural entanglement.In this process,the interpretation of Greek texts reveals an important theme of philosophy in Chinese or Sino-philosophy.Heidegger's German expression of this theme can be summarized as"gegenwendige Zusammengehörigkeit"(belonging together in counterturning).If we borrow a traditional Chinese philosophical term to express this,it can be translated as diaogui xiangji or"paradoxe Selbigkeit"in German and"paradoxical sameness"in English.
Martin HeideggerLaoziPlatoGreek philosophyParadoxical Sameness
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