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Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher

Martin Heidegger was an 20th-century German philosopher. His most famous work is Being and Time (Sein und Zeit, 1927, ). His works covered , , and . His central question is concerning .

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What is "Under Erasure"?

I am fairly uneducated person in philosophy, yet trained in theoretical physics. For irrelevant reasons, I have became very much curious about Sous rature (or under erasure). The concept(or strategy?) which I know near to nothing about it, like…
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Heidegger - how does the present-at-hand become ready-to-hand?

I'm talking about the learning process... whereby a tool, first unfamiliar to the user, after some period of time, becomes transparent to the user. For example someone learning to play an instrument. I assume when someone encounters their instrument…
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Why is Being not an entity in Heidegger's Being and Time?

Just starting working through Heidegger's Being and Time. Why is Being not an entity? Heidegger says this: (Section 2, German H4) ‘Being’ cannot indeed be conceived as an entity; enti non additur aliqua natura: nor can it acquire such a character as…
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Was Heidegger simply a Lebensreform (er)?

Here is a little information about the Lebensreform in English. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensreform I am referring particularly to the time before WWI. (edit) It is hard to say, of course, that Heidegger is "simply" anything, but part of…
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Any advice for starting with Heidegger's What is Called Thinking

I thought I might pick up a copy, see what he's saying there. Any advice, things to look out for, half baked rebuttals of the project?
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Can an entity like a car be Dasein?

Can an entity like a car be (literally, not metaphorically) Dasein? Or does Dasein's comportment mean that what we are comported towards is not Dasein? What about abstract entities like e.g. love. Can love be Dasein?
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What valuable thought came out of Heidegger's Being and Time?

I'm originally studied in natural science, so when I read philosophy I tend to put a lot of it into a scientific context, which usually supersedes whatever I'm reading and effectively stamps it out. That said, I've heard that Heidegger's 'Being and…
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The meaning of "beings as a whole" for Heidegger

I am reading a secondary source on Heidegger's theory of truth and the phrases "being as a whole" and "beings as a whole" are appearing repeatedly. At first I thought this meant something like "the whole of being", or "Being in general", but I don't…
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If entities are all that IS [entities = being], isn't Heidegger's claim that being is something "extra" incongruent?

I saw that there's already a question about this but the emphasis was on what could being be if not an entity. Heidegger thinks of Being as something "extra", a priori, to entities. I'd like to question the "need" to make such a differentiation…
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Are the logical leaps in Heidegger thought fully explained through his phenomenological framework?

The idea of the necessity of knowing what Dassein is in order to understand what beingness is is never explained, it is just deliberately stated as fact. And also how he rejects the ontological ideas surrounding “subject” and “object” saying they…
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What does Heidegger mean by cybernetics here?

In the Seminar on Heraclitus, conducted by Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink in 1966, Heidegger says: In the experiment which we undertake, there is no question of wanting to conjure up Heraclitus himself. Rather, he speaks with us and we speak…
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What is the significance of Heidegger's concept of Gewörfenheit (AKA throwness)?

I don't know much about Heidegger but I happen to like this concept very much. The feeling that we are "thrown" into this world. I'm taking a class on creative writing and wanted to write something about this. But before I actually do it, I wanted…
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How does the circularity involved in the ontology of Dasein effect the question of the meaning of Being?

An entity for which, as Being-in-the-world, its Being is itself an issue, has, ontologically, a circular structure Does this mean that the very reasons for studying the meaning of Being are incomplete until his existential analytic is? That the…
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