Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger
Martin Heideggerwas a German philosopher and a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition and philosophical hermeneutics. According to the IEP, he is "widely acknowledged to be one of the most original and important philosophers of the 20th century." Heidegger is best known for his contributions to Phenomenology and Existentialism, though as the SEP cautions, "his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification."...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth26 September 1889
CountryGermany
We still by no means think decisively enough about the essence of action.
Being is an issue for one.
But what is great can only begin great.
The essence of technology is by no means anything technological.
Since time itself is not movement, it must somehow have to do with movement.Time is initially encountered in those entities which are changeable, change is in time. How is time exhibited in this way of encountering it, namely, as that within which things change? Does it here give itself as itself in what it is? Can an axplacation of time starts here guarantee that time will thereby provide as it were the fundamental phenomena that determine it in its own being?
The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
Dasein is a being that does not simply occur among other beings. Rather it is ontically distinguished by the fact that in its being this being is concerned about its very being. Thus it is constitutive of the being of Dasein to have, in its very being, a relation of being to this being.
So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
We make a space inside ourselves, so that being can speak.
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
Temporality temporalizes as a future which makes present in the process of having been.
We would like only, for once, to get to where we are already.
We ourselves are the entities to be analyzed.