![]() ![]() He is the Wittgenstein of the Continental tradition. He called it the “Seinsfrage” - the question of Being - and his work in this field has earned him the reputation among professional philosophers as one of the most profound thinkers of the 20th century. Before Aristotle, in the primordial days of philosophy’s infancy, we find philosophers from Plato and Parmenides to Heraclitus and Anaximander asking this fundamental question.Īfter millennia of neglect, Martin Heidegger made it his life’s work to ask just this question. The question of Being has been utterly neglected since the work of Aristotle. ![]() For all this prominence, or perhaps because of this all-too-close nature, few people ever ask: what is is?Īccording to Martin Heidegger this is not just a forgetfulness on the part of you or me but of the entire Western philosophical tradition over the past two and a half thousand years. The word “is”, is a stealthy term that slips its way into every nook and cranny of our language without the slightest notice on our part. ![]() Leo Strauss, “ Philosophy as Rigorous Science and Political Philosophy ”, Interpretation: A Journal of Political Philosophy 2, no. To that thought alone existentialism owes its importance or intellectual respectability. Existentialism is a “movement” which like all such movements has a flabby periphery and a hard center. ![]()
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