Nachsehen

Category: Heidegger - Termos originais
Submitter: Murilo Cardoso de Castro

Nachsehen

tolérance [ETEM]

4. ‘…bis zur Rücksichtslosigkeit und dem Nachsehen, das die Gleichgültigkeit leitet.’ This passage is ambiguous both syntactically and semantically. It is not clear, for instance, whether the subject of the relative clause is ‘die Gleichgültigkeit’ or the pronoun ‘das’, though we prefer the former interpretation. ‘Nachsehen’, which is etymologically akin to ‘Nachsicht’, means to ‘inspect’ or ‘check’ something; but it often means to do this in a very perfunctory manner, and this latter sense may well be the one which Heidegger has in mind. [BTMR]

Submitted on:  Sat, 24-Jul-2021, 10:13