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
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history.
I take great pleasure, every day, in seeing my work deeply rooted in our native soil.
When modern physics exerts itself to establish the world's formula, what occurs thereby is this: the being of entities has resolved itself into the method of the totally calculable.
The song still remains which names the land over which it sings.
Time-space as commonly understood, in the sense of the distance measured between two time-points, is the result of time calculation.
So long as we represent technology as an instrument, we remain held fast in the will to master it.
The mathematical is that evident aspect of things within which we are always already moving and according to which we experience them as things at all, and as such things. The mathematical is this fundamental position we take toward things by which we take up things as already given to us, and as they must and should be given. Therefore, the mathematical is the fundamental presupposition of the knowledge of things.
This characteristic of Dasein's being this "that it is" is veiled in its "whence" and "whither.
The critique of the highest values hitherto does not simply refute them or declare them invalid. It is rather a matter of displaying their origins as impositions which must affirm precisely what ought to be negated by the values established.
The poets are in the vanguard of a changed conception of Being.
There is no such thing as an empty word, only one that is worn out yet remains full.
And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distances he establishes toward all being in his transcendence does a true nearness to things flourish in him.
A giving which gives only its gift, but in the giving holds itself back and withdraws, such a giving we call sending.