Martin Heidegger
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Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher who lived from 1889 to 1976 and became one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His work fundamentally shaped modern philosophy, particularly in areas concerning how we understand existence, language, and our place in the world.
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Martin Heidegger (1889 - 1976) was a German philosopher. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. Especially his book Sein und Zeit (Being and Time, 1927) is very well known and is considered to be the most important philosophical work of our time. His philosophy as a whole revolves around the 'question of being'. His work includes reflections on the history of philosophy, metaphysics, truth, art, language, technology, nihilism, dwelling and poetry. <a h
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Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He has had significant impact within subsequent philosophy, social sciences and humanities, and theology.
Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time (1927), is widely considered one of the most significant works of modern philosophy. In it, he introduced the concept of Dasein ("being-there") to describe the distinctive character of human existence, arguing that humans possess a "pre-ontological" understanding of being that shapes how they live and act, which he analyzed in terms of the unitary structure of "being-in-the-world". Through his analysis of Dasein, Heidegger sought to reawaken what he called "the question of being": the fundamental inquiry into what makes entities intelligible as the entities they are. In other words, Heidegger's governing "question of being" is concerned with what makes beings intelligible as beings. This question, he believed, had been neglected or obscured throughout the history of Western philosophy since the ancient Greeks.