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concepts, ideas, or distinctions, but through the way paved by Kierkegaard “for a particular intellectual climate committed to illuminating the tapestry of existence” (212). Marcel finds in Kierkegaard “a kindred spirit in the fight for the non-objecti-fiable sphere of life [the subjective] that both encompasses us and transcends us,
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Martin Heidegger is widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century, while remaining one of the most controversial. His thinking has contributed to such diverse fields as phenomenology (Merleau-Ponty), existentialism (Sartre, Ortega y Gasset), hermeneutics (Gadamer, Ricoeur), political theory (Arend...
Heidegger was born on September 26, 1889 in Messkirch in south-west Germany to a Catholic family. His father worked as sexton in the local church. In his early youth, Heidegger was being prepared for the priesthood. In 1903 he went to the high school in Konstanz, where the church supported him with a scholarship, and then, in 1906, he moved to Frei...
In 1923, with the support of Paul Natorp, Heidegger was appointed associate professor at Marburg University. Between 1923 and 1928, he enjoyed there the most fruitful years of his entire teaching career. His students testified to the originality of his insight and the intensity of his philosophical questioning. Heidegger extended the scope of his l...
Heideggers life entered a problematic and controversial stage with Hitlers rise to power. In September 1930, Adolf Hitlers National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP) became the second largest party in Germany, and on January 30, 1933 Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany. Up to then virtually apolitical, Heidegger now became politically i...
As authentically temporal, Dasein as potentiality-for-being comes towards itself in its possibilities of being by going back to what has been; it always comes towards itself from out of a possibility of itself. Hence, it comports itself towards the future by always coming back to its past; the past which is not merely past but still around as havin...
The turn (Kehre) that occurs in the 1930s is the change in Heideggers thinking mentioned above. The consequence of the turn is not the abandoning of the leading question of Being and Time. Heidegger stresses the continuity of his thought over the course of the change. Nevertheless, as everything is reversed, even the question concerning the meaning...
For a reader unacquainted with Heideggers thought, both the question of the meaning of being and the expression history of being sound strange. In the first place, such a reader may argue that when something is said to be, there is nothing expressed which the world Being could properly denote. Therefore, the word being is a meaningless term and the...
The conception of the history of being is of central importance in Heideggers thought. Already in Being and Time its idea is foreshadowed as the destruction of the history of ontology. In Heideggers later writings the story is considerably recast and called the history of being (Seinsgeschichte). The beginning of this story, as told by Heidegger es...
The truth of being, its openness, is for Heidegger not something which we can merely consider or think of. It is not our own production. It is where we always come to stand. We find ourselves thrown in a historically conditioned environment, in an epoch in which the decision concerning the prevailing interpretation of the being of being is already ...
Heideggers earlier publications and transcripts of his lectures are being brought out in Gesamtausgabe, the complete edition of his works. The Gesamtausgabe, which is not yet complete and projected to fill about one hundred volumes, is published by Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main. The series consists of four divisions: (I) Published Writing...
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Nov 14, 2023 · Metaphysics is the study of abstract philosophical concepts such as time, space, being, knowing, cause, mind and matter, potentiality and actuality. Aristotle's Philosophy Through History. As a young man, Aristotle studied at Plato’s school and remained there until Plato’s death. Afterward, he served as a tutor to Alexander the Great, a ...
Reality, Idealism, and the Subject/Object Divide: Antonio Machado and the Modernist Crisis of Knowledge. This article has two aims: first, to frame Antonio Machado’s early preoccupation with the nature of reality within the epistemological questions that were being raised in Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century concerning ...
