Martin Heidegger

Jean-Paul Sartre was a French Philosopher, novelist and literary critic. He was born on the 21st of June, 1905. During his life, he was one of the important figures in the philosophy of existentialism and also one of the prominent individuals in the 20th century French philosophy and Marxism. Existentialism is a 20th century philosophy which is basically centred on the analysis of existence, freedom and choice. It is the understanding that humans define their purpose in life and try to make…

Poetry and thought are often interpreted as too lofty for the realm of politics, a realm dominated power (Berlin: 2004). Yet memory, as elaborated by poets should always be an exercise in education. The value of narrative, writing, and poetry is high. For ‘the very fact that so great of an enterprise as the Trojan War could have been forgotten without a poet to immortalize it several hundred years later offered only too good an example of what could happen to human greatness if it had nothing…

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;…

The relationship between owning something and the development of a person’s character has been long disputed. It is a proven fact that what is owned by a person in their childhood, directly affects their character as a person. We live in a world where a person’s social status is almost defined by how much that person owns. The value of a person is basically measured by the value of all their tangible goods. Many philosophers and transcendentalists have discussed this topic in their writings.…

Using Schumann’s translation and interpretation of Eckhart’s philosophy of existence and being, one can connect these to moments in life that constitute what he calls “operative identity”, characterized by actions that are without motive that reveal who we are and that we are existent beings, while also suggesting that God is a necessary being. One example from my own life would be the creation of artworks throughout my life. Although beginning with the motive of a grade in high school, the…

20 million dead and one man responsible. That one man would be known as Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party. One question arises when discussing the immoral things that this one man did to humanity and that is was Hitler born with the mindset that he had to kill off all those innocent people or was he 100 percent in control of choosing his destiny? This brings up a very controversial issue as many believe that man has the freedom to do what he pleases and to define himself by his own…

In this essay I aim to show what Heidegger believes is distinctive about anxiety in contrast to every other mood. To do this, I will start by describing Heidegger’s view on moods, before contrasting this with his thoughts on anxiety to show why he believes it is more significant and unique than any other. I will then provide an argument against this view to show how in fact Heidegger is not justified in thinking this due to his later view on profound boredom. First, I will describe Heidegger’s…

Later developing this work, Heidegger, a student and admirer of Husserl’s, introduced a hermeneutic perspective to the philosophy of phenomenology,…

1.2 Yalom’s model of existential psychotherapy Yalom believed life has arisen from random events, we are finite and we are responsible for our own destiny (Yalom, 2008), and he identified “four ultimate concerns” as the key to all human existence; death, freedom, isolation and meaningless, and stated, “The individual’s confrontation with these facts of life constitutes the content of the existential dynamic conflict” (Yalom, 1980 p. 8). Death is the central part of Yalom’s philosophy, as we are…

Figurative language, as a core pillar of language, has played a major part in the development, discovery and creation of most, if not all the concepts in our real world today. Nietzsche, Plato and Aristotle, are three well noted philosophers who all believed that a great extent of our knowledge and everything that we know today and believe to be true is in someway metaphors and illusions. They all understood the strong bond that knowledge and metaphors had. However, they each viewed metaphors…