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Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher

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Is the origin of Dasein the same as that of image making?

But what does Heidegger say in the comment? … (SuZ 2006, p. 22) For Heidegger, (philosophical) 'tradition' starts with the Greeks: ancient ontology is the ontology of the ancient Greeks (he mentions 'The greek ontology and its history' just before …
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Is the question: why there is something rather than nothing?, the root of all philosophy?

Heidegger assesses this critically: this essence is again assumed to be a certain being (the form, and finally God). … In the essay (Introduction to metaphysics), Heidegger himself stresses this question differently: rather than beings, he stresses the nothing. …
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Language as the house of being

Heidegger usually takes Descartes as its philosophical starting point. He characterizes it a turn towards subjectivity with science and technology as its culmination. Nameless. … This confrontation with nihilism is for Heidegger the preparation for questioning Being itself. …
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Taine reference in Heidegger's 'What is metaphysics?'

, in the first section[1], Heidegger characterizes science as being about 'being itself - and nothing more' ('das Seiende selbst - und weiter nichts'). … [1] English: http://wagner.edu/psychology/files/2013/01/Heidegger-What-Is-Metaphysics-Translation-GROTH.pdf p.34 …
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Taine reference in Heidegger's 'What is metaphysics?'

I found an answer: Le passage de Taine auquel Heidegger fait allusion se trouve dans la Philosophie de l'art, 13e édition, Paris. Hachette. 1909, p. 12. … Heidegger, « Mein liebes Seelchen! ». Briefe Martin Heideggers an seine Frau Elfride, 1915 - 1970, hg. von Gertrud Heidegger, Munich, Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005. p. 192). …
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Is authenticity an efficiency?

I would define efficiency as follows: to accomplish something with the least effort. Efficiency, as a way of accomplishing something, is in the jargon of Sein und Zeit a mode of ready-at-handness (Zuh …
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Is Dasein Heideggerian Zen?

Paralells between Zen and Heidegger However, there have been quite many studies and essays on the parallels between Heidegger and Zen. … Difference between Zen and Heidegger The overall approach of Heidegger and Zen is nevertheless quite different. Heidegger wants to renew and (re)ask the question of Being. …
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Should one consider Phenomenology as a turn from Aristotle's eternal substances to Heraclite...

That would just be swapping one metaphysics for another, while Heidegger, in Sein und Zeit at least, is concerned with unquestioned, precursory relation between being and time. …
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What is the character of Heidegger's notion of authenticity in being-towards-death?

And it is only formal, Heidegger provides no contents. This is (a.o.) because Sein und Zeit is a preparation for the question to the sense of Being (Sinn von Sein). … Remember 'art' means someting different for Nietzsche than for Heidegger: For Nietzsche, art is a creation of the will. …
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Who did Heidegger consider as the thinkers of Being in Antiquity?

The other beginning starts with Heidegger (sort of, he usually says he's making way for it, preparing for it). … So they (and all other philosophers until Heidegger) are 'thinkers of Being' only in a certain limited way. …
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How many different usages of being is there in this short paragraph of Heidegger?

Your question actually falls into two: which different senses Heidegger assumes he uses; which different senses he actually uses. Ad 1. … Perhaps Heidegger actually confused several meanings of Sein/Being into one, as is argued for example by Herman Philipse (in his Heidegger's Philosophy of Being: A Critical Interpretation). …
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