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For Heidegger, human essence is not human being but Being, and so far philosophy has blocked the question about Being. In this sense, he interrogates the use of the word humanism by Sartre and other philosophers, for they have not been true to the essence of Being; and curiously enough, instead of abandoning the term he asks whether it should be preserved and even appropriates it for moments, claiming for “a ‘humanism’ that contradicts all previous humanism –although in no way advocates the inhuman…” (“Letter on ‘Humanism’ 263). Here, although he expresses his reluctance in using the term, Heidegger seems more worried about defining it correctly than about abandoning it. He claims that the metaphysical register under which humanism operates “thinks of the human being on the basis of animalitas and does not think in the direction of his humanitas.” (“Letter on ‘Humanism’ 246-7). It is clear that Heidegger believes that, paradoxically, despite exalting the human being, humanism does not pose the human high enough. He seems to be more humanist than