Human history answers the question of Being in concrete practical terms
Evidence
To avoid a misunderstanding: I do not believe that the Frage nach dem Sein and similar questions are or ought to be an existential concern. What was meaningful at the origins of philosophic thought may well have become meaningless at its end, and the loss of meaning may not be due to the incapacity to think. The history of mankind has given definite answers to the “question of Being,” and has given them in very concrete terms, which have proved their efficacy. The technological universe is one of them.
— Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 540
Categorization
DEFINE: Clarifies what the Frage nach dem Sein amounts to and why Marcuse thinks its apparent loss of meaning is not a failure of thought.
XREF: The claim that history answers ontological questions in concrete technological terms connects to Marcuse’s broader thesis that technological rationality has become ideology. — connects to: Metaphysics explains why this concrete world exists, as history explains particulars to sociology.; Historization makes an existent gain a history by concrete involvement in an actual world.; Man is a historical bloc of subjective and material elements
Broader Connections
Man is a historical bloc of subjective and material elements #expands (0.80)