Heidegger Understands Your Feelings In The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Martin Heidegger elaborates on Kant's understanding of the self as “personalitas moralis” by declaring, “Kant's interpretation of the phenomenon of respect is probably the most brilliant phenomenological analysis of the phenomenon of morality that we have from him”.1 While Heidegger admits that Kant's interpretation of respect is brilliant, he also concludes that Kant did not go deep enough into the analysis of respect. Heidegger argues that, “What is phenomenologically decisive in the phenomenon of feeling is that it directly uncovers and makes accessible that which is felt”.2 However, the phenomenon of feeling does not perform this act through intuition. Instead,
