M4S1 Flashcards
when and where was Martin Heidegger born?
September 26, 1889,
Messkirch, Schwarzwald, Germany
when did Martin Heidegger die?
May 26, 1976,
Messkirch, West Germany),
German philosopher,
counted among the main exponents of existentialism.
Martin Heidegger,
(the philosophical study
of being, or existence)
ontology
His
groundbreaking work in ontology (the philosophical study
of being, or existence) and metaphysics determined the
course of 20th-century philosophy on the European
continent and exerted an enormous influence on virtually
every other humanistic discipline, including literary
criticism, hermeneutics, psychology, and theology.
ontology
Heidegger was the son of a X of the local Roman Catholic church in Messkirch,
Germany.
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his obvious intellectual gifts earned
him a religious scholarship to pursue his secondary education in the neighbouring town of X
Konstanz.
While in his 20s Heidegger studied at the University of X under X.
Freiburg
Heinrich Rickert and
Edmund Husserl
He received a doctorate in philosophy in X with a dissertation on
psychologism, Die Lehre vom Urteil im Psychologismus: ein kritisch-positiver Beitrag zur
Logik (“The Doctrine of Judgment in Psychologism: A Critical-Positive Contribution to Logic”).
1913
(a requirement for teaching at the university level
in Germany)
thesis
In 1915 he completed his habilitation thesis (a requirement for teaching at the university level
in Germany) on the X
Scholastic theologian John Duns Scotus.
following year Heidegger’s study of classical X by X
Protestant texts
Martin Luther, John Calvin, and
others
religion of his youth,
Roman Catholicism
He completed his break with Catholicism by marrying a Lutheran, X, in 1917.
Elfride Petri
the movement that Husserl had founded,
phenomenology
describe as exactly as possible the phenomena and structures of conscious experience without appeal to
philosophical or scientific preconceptions about their nature, origin, or cause.
phenomenology
Heidegger became heir to what
the movement that Husserl had founded, phenomenology
from who did Heidegger learn the method of phenomenological reduction,
Husserl
the inherited preconceptions of conscious
phenomena are pared away in order to reveal their essence, or primordial truth.
phenomenological reduction
when was Heidegger appointed as the associate professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg.
In 1923
Although
he published very little in the early 1920s, his X created for him a legendary
reputation among young students of philosophy in X.
mesmerizing podium presence
Germany
former student of Heidegger and one of the most-important political philosophers of the 20th century,
Hannah Arendt (1906–75),
described Heidegger’s subterranean renown as being like a “rumour of a hidden king.”
Hannah Arendt (1906–75),
German-born American political scientist and philosopher known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism.
Hannah Arendt (1906–75),
According to Heidegger’s later account, his interest in philosophy was inspired by his reading in 1907 of Von
der mannigfachen Bedeutung des Seienden nach Aristoteles (1862; X), by the German philosopher X (1838–1917).
On the Several Senses of Being in
Aristotle
Franz Brentano
Subsequent stages of Heidegger’s early
philosophical development were illuminated for scholars in the late 20th century by the X he delivered in the 1920s.
publication of
transcripts of lectures
helped Heidegger to define the peculiar “Being” of the human individual in terms of a
set of worldly involvements and commitments;
Aristotle’s conception of phronēsis, or
practical wisdom,
became crucial in Heidegger’s view of time
and history as essential facets of human Being.
German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey’s notion of
“historicity,”
being historically situated and determined
historicity
Heidegger strongly opposes the view
that technology is X
“a means to an end”
or “a human activity.”
These two approaches, which Heidegger calls, respectively, the “instrumental” and “anthropological” definitions, are indeed “correct”, but do not go deep enough; as he says, they are not yet “true.”
“a means to an end”
or “a human activity.”
