HEIDEGGER’S PHILOSOPHY SUMMARY

Martin Heidegger is a German philosopher.  Heidegger  shows “Human reality” (Dasein) is often lost in inauthentic and everyday life. But human being can also find his authenticity and open the mystery of the Being, source of all things.

Heidegger wrote essentially:

– Being and Time (1927) Certainly the major philosophical work of the XXth century

– What is metaphysics? (1929)

– The Essence of Truth (1943)

– Paths that lead nowhere (1950)

– The Question of the art ((1953)

Heidegger and the everydayness:

Heidegger, in Being and Time (1927), describes the condition of Dasein, this being particularly where Being has to be there.

– The existing human, thrown into the world and abandoned to itself (what Heidegger calls our dereliction), is a reality whose nature is to be mainly concern: which means it is constantly thrown forward of himself, he s’anticipe itself, it never coincides with its own essence.

Here’s a way of being and existence that could give rise to anxiety. Now what exactly does “human reality” is to escape itself, forget, to hide his true self.

– The cover has a name: inauthenticity.

– Being inauthentic is precisely to evade what we are.

– What are we? a “concern” an anticipation of ourselves into the future, a being thrown into the world to die.

So Dasein takes refuge there in the middle of the “banality” universe where easy triumph “On ‘anonymity unoriginal, outright dissolution of individuality.

– In this banality, he escapes the anguish, emotional disposition fundamental confronts us nothing and before our own death, seen as very form of human life, considered in its finitude.