Analysis Of Mr. Heidegger's Being And Time

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Mr. Heidegger’s magnum opus, Being and Time, sparked an intellectual event that spread far beyond philosophy. Being and Time is considered a landmark work of the twentieth century, although it was at first rejected and thought to be “inaquidate” It was originally published in Germany in 1927 and the original copy was only four hundred and thrity-seven pages long. Many people that have read his book consider it a legendary difficult read.
Mr. Heidegger’s largest critigue is that Mr. Martin as Simon Critchley an instructor in New School University in New York, writes “the most important and continental philosopher of the last centry was also a Nazi.” making any of his works filled with much contravercy, hatred, and misunderstanding.
In my opinion, Mr. Heidegger was a very courageous individual. He made his own version of common vocabulary and as he presented arguments of just about every famous philosopher ideas including Parmedes, Plato,
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Heidegger believed that the single most inportant question was the question of Being. He goes on to say, right of the introduction that the idea of Being is already a universal concept but it is also one of the most emptiest. One of the main ways that he tries to answer this idea of Being in a way that can be merely understood is by focusing on the unique Being or the human being who he gives the name Dasein and pens out or makes Dasein comprehensable to itself by what it is and by what is already itself. The verb da sein literally translated to “there being” or in more comprehensable terms “being there” or “to be”Heidegger does makes it clear that his focus is not in the biological aspect of Dasein but rather he chooses to focus on Dasein and study them in his “everydayness,” which I think makes his work partly stand out from other philosophical writers. He also focuses his concepts of Dasein only in the physical world or the world you can see. Agreeing with Parmedes that there is only being and besides being

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