Martin Heidegger · Philosophy

The Question of Being

Heidegger reopened the oldest and most forgotten question in philosophy: <em>what does it mean to be?</em> Not what particular things exist, but what &lsquo;being&rsquo; itself means - a question, he charged, that the whole Western tradition had asked badly or forgotten entirely. <em>Being and Time</em> (1927) is the attempt to ask it anew.

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You learned that Heidegger revived the question of being (Seinsfrage): not which beings exist, but what &lsquo;being&rsquo; itself means - and he charged the tradition with &lsquo;forgetting&rsquo; this question by treating being as if it were just another being. Explain the ontological difference and why Heidegger th…

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