Martin Heidegger

What is Being? We have forgotten the question.

Phenomenology1889 – 1976 GermanyThinker of beingPhenomenologistAuthor of Being and TimeMember of the Nazi party (1933-1945)

Inspirations

Aristote the question of being, reread in Greek

Kierkegaard anxiety, existence (he cites him in a footnote of Being and Time)

Nietzsche the critique of metaphysics

Edmund Husserlphenomenology, his teacher

Hölderlinpoetry, technology, dwelling

Heirs

Sartre takes up Dasein and anxiety; Heidegger rejects "existentialism"

Emmanuel Levinasethics before ontology; the death of the other

critic

Rudolf Carnap"The Elimination of Metaphysics" (1932)

critic

Hannah ArendtHeidegger's student, then critic

Hans-Georg Gadamerhermeneutics

Jacques Derridadeconstruction

Nishitani KeijiKyoto School: nothingness and emptiness

how it is computed

Closest

Laozi Follow the Way (Dao) through non-action.

Ludwig Wittgenstein The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.

Confucius Becoming human through learning, ritual and benevolence.

Aristotle Observe, classify, reason: happiness through virtue.

Furthest

Democritus Nothing exists but atoms and the void.

Denis Diderot Gather all human knowledge in the Encyclopédie.