Summarization- Important Notes to Remember: Heidegger՚s Belief, Aristotle Belief, Heidegger Ontological Difference, Heidegger, the ‘Being of Beings’

Summarization- Important Notes to Remember

Heidegger՚s Belief

• Heidegger՚s chief concern is not with how a particular thing/entity X (table, chair etc.) is related to another particular thing Y, but how the meaning of a particular thing and its relation with other things get determined at all.
• In other words, Heidegger asks this question – what does it mean for a thing (x, y, etc.) to be. This is ontology or the study of being and is different from the ontic relationality between things

Aristotle Belief

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Understanding the Concepts Used by Heidegger: Being and Time, Understanding Nihilism, the Concept of Ontological Difference

Being and Time

Heidegger՚s most famous work is ‘Being and Time’.

• Husserl was Heidegger՚s mentor but Heidegger never followed him. Heidegger uses a poetic and dramatic language, unlike the analytics.
• For this reason, it becomes difficult to summarize him. His famous thesis: mortality (death) is human՚s defining moment.
• This emphasis on death must have been the effect of 1^st world war on them. We are thrown into the limited world of sense (experience) - the star…

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