Martin Heidegger · Philosophy
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 ‘being’ 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.
You learned that Heidegger revived the question of being (Seinsfrage): not which beings exist, but what ‘being’ itself means - and he charged the tradition with ‘forgetting’ this question by treating being as if it were just another being. Explain the ontological difference and why Heidegger th…
Leads to Parmenides.
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