(varphi upsilon 'sigma iota varsigma - lambda o'yovarsigma) is a primordial one which on Heidegger's view is not yet "metaphysical", provided we conceive of "Metaphysics" as the "Vorstellen" of "beings as such" whereby Being as Being remains unthought. But this preoccupation with "beings as such" or "beings as a whole" lets us encounter two perspectives out of which the "essence" of modern technology may be approached. Is not technology, as Heidegger views it, the unfolding of the fundamental tendency of traditional Metaphysics which seems to have taken over the task of determining the "Being of beings" (the "beingness" of beings) by means of a certain style of "thinking"; that is, of determining the Being of beings subjectively? But more essential: what else issues from the "essence" of technology, if not the preoccupation with beings in the manner of "Bestellen"? Is not technology and the technological Bestellen the consequence of Being's "refusal" ("Verweigerung") or "concealment" ("Verbergung")?¹ The event which inaugurates Being's ownmost "withdrawal", with respect to which modern technological activity is to be considered, begins as soon as Being (in the essential sense of (varphi upsilon 'sigma zeta)) is interpreted as (idelta varepsilon 'alpha). Thus it is sufficiently manifest that Heidegger's Plato-interpretation must concern us." /> The platonic 'iδÉa and 'iδÉin - Loscerbo John | sdvig press