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Heidegger, Martin
Born in Messkirch, Baden-Württemberg, in 1889, Martin Heidegger studied Catholic theology and later philosophy at Freiburg University under the guidance of Edmund Husserl, the founder of phenomenology. After teaching at Freiburg and Marburg, he became professor of philosophy at Freiburg in 1928. He died in Messkirch in 1976.
His greatest work, Being and Time (1927, translated 1962), asked the question “What is being?” and answered it by analyzing the being of human beings or Dasein (literally, being-there), the only entities that interpret themselves and decide on their own being. Dasein’s being is existence (in its root sense of stepping forth) or being-in-the-world. People are thrown along with others into a world comprising interrelated objects of use against the background of nature. Our being is temporal. Not ...
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