So, Heidegger proposed, we must abandon logic in order to explore the character of Nothing as the background out of which everything emerges.Ĭarefully contemplating Nothing in itself, we begin to notice the importance and vitality of our own moods.Ībove all else, Nothing is what produces in us a feeling of dread Traditional logic is no help, since it merely regards all negation as derivative from something positive. It's not anything, and it's not something, yet it isn't the negation of something, either. The best way to exhibit the subject-matter of first philosophy is to pursue one actual metaphysical question since all of them are inter-connected, each inevitably leads us into all of the others.Īlthough traditional learning focusses on what is, Heidegger noted, it may be far more illuminating to examine the boundaries of ordinary knowledge by trying to study what is not. In the lecture, "What is Metaphysics?" Heidegger developed several of his themes in characteristically cumbersome language.
In Heidegger's full-fledged existentialism, the primary task of philosophy is to understand Being itself, not merely our knowledge of it. Phenomenology in pursuit of more comprehensive German philosopher Martin Heidegger employed the methods of
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