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In the previous chapter an attempt was made to bring out the importance of the problem of nature as physis, as the strife between the earth and the world, and as holiness — the way it is thought of by the early Greeks, by Heidegger, and by Hölderlin. However, the earth, as standing in strife with the world, did not sufficiently show how the earth has to b6 thought of in its relation to man; and again, what is its relation to the world when man and gods are brought into play. All this may become clearer in the consideration of the foursome (Geviert), the problem of supreme importance in Heidegger’s late philosophy.
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Vycinas, V. (1969). Gods. In: Earth and Gods. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3359-6_6
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