Abstract

In this article, I examine a number of closely connected issues in Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy; god, gods, decision,the modern danger, and the salvation of humanity which is associated with the upsurge of a radically different age of being, what he calls, “the other beginning”.Heidegger situates the other beginning in the context of the emergency of a profound danger linked with the modern technological world. This prospect of danger calls for a decision in which human beings need to participate.Heidegger seems to present an intimating, refusing and passing god as the only alternative beyond the onto-theo-logical tradition that lies behind the modern world. In this connection, I also suggest that the other beginning as “the history of the preservation of god”represents a sort of salvific conception, in a sense, a salvation from objectifying reason. As I see it, Heidegger offers the last godand gods asan antidote to the hegemony of objectifying reason.