Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher, widely seen as a seminal thinker in the Continental tradition, particularly within the fields of existential phenomenology and philosophical hermeneutics. From his beginnings as a Catholic academic, he developed a groundbreaking and widely influential philosophy. His relationship with Nazism has been a controversial and widely debated subject.
For Heidegger, the things in lived experience always have more to them than what we can see; accordingly, the true nature of being is “withdrawal”. The interplay between the obscured reality of things and their appearance in what he calls the “clearing” is Heidegger's main theme. The presence of things for us is not their being, but merely their being interpreted as equipment according to a particular system of meaning and purpose. For instance, when a hammer is efficiently used to knock in nails we cease to be aware of it. This is termed 'ready to hand', and Heidegger considers it an authentic mode. The 'time' in the title of his best-known work, Being and Time, refers to the way that the given features are interpreted in the light of their possibilities.
Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history. history
Language is the house of the truth of Being. truth
The most thought-provoking thing in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. time
But every historical statement and legitimization itself moves within a certain relation to history. history
To dwell is to garden. gardening
Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one. alone