Releasement as a determining feature in training in the technical era

Abstract

The philosophical diagnosis of modernity presented by Heidegger, as a time of technical mastery, reveals the threat of a plastering of human possibilities to the logic of the calculative thinking, which finds objects to be explored, transformed and organized everywhere. Ultimately, the human being would no longer be able to consider himself except from this base of thinking, also becoming a resource of the technical world. Therefore, this article seeks to explore, based on bibliographical research, the possibility of self-training that may still be envisioned, based on the notion of releasement. This concept was introduced by Heidegger himself to name the disposition capable of breaking with the logic of the calculative thinking and enabling another way of thinking, the meditative one, which could keep human beings open to different ways of understanding themselves, their possibilities and the world as a whole. The article sustains the argument that the releasement reached through meditative thinking becomes, in the technical era, a fundamental requirement for human training understood as self-training.