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Question 1

when and where was Martin Heidegger born?

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September 26, 1889,

Messkirch, Schwarzwald, Germany

Question 2

when did Martin Heidegger die?

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May 26, 1976,

Messkirch, West Germany),

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German philosopher,

counted among the main exponents of existentialism.

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Martin Heidegger,

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(the philosophical study

of being, or existence)

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ontology

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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.

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ontology

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Heidegger was the son of a X of the local Roman Catholic church in Messkirch,
Germany.

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sexton

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his obvious intellectual gifts earned

him a religious scholarship to pursue his secondary education in the neighbouring town of X

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Konstanz.

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While in his 20s Heidegger studied at the University of X under X.

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Freiburg

Heinrich Rickert and
Edmund Husserl

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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”).

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1913

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(a requirement for teaching at the university level

in Germany)

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thesis

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In 1915 he completed his habilitation thesis (a requirement for teaching at the university level
in Germany) on the X

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Scholastic theologian John Duns Scotus.

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following year Heidegger’s study of classical X by X

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Protestant texts

Martin Luther, John Calvin, and
others

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religion of his youth,

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Roman Catholicism

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He completed his break with Catholicism by marrying a Lutheran, X, in 1917.

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Elfride Petri

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the movement that Husserl had founded,

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phenomenology

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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.

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phenomenology

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Heidegger became heir to what

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the movement that Husserl had founded, phenomenology

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from who did Heidegger learn the method of phenomenological reduction,

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Husserl

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the inherited preconceptions of conscious

phenomena are pared away in order to reveal their essence, or primordial truth.

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phenomenological reduction

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when was Heidegger appointed as the associate professor of philosophy at the University of Marburg.

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In 1923

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Although
he published very little in the early 1920s, his X created for him a legendary
reputation among young students of philosophy in X.

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mesmerizing podium presence

Germany

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former student of Heidegger and one of the most-important political philosophers of the 20th century,

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Hannah Arendt (1906–75),

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described Heidegger’s subterranean renown as being like a “rumour of a hidden king.”

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Hannah Arendt (1906–75),

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German-born American political scientist and philosopher known for her critical writing on Jewish affairs and her study of totalitarianism.

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Hannah Arendt (1906–75),

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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).

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On the Several Senses of Being in
Aristotle

Franz Brentano

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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.

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publication of

transcripts of lectures

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helped Heidegger to define the peculiar “Being” of the human individual in terms of a
set of worldly involvements and commitments;

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Aristotle’s conception of phronēsis, or

practical wisdom,

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became crucial in Heidegger’s view of time

and history as essential facets of human Being.

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German philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey’s notion of

“historicity,”

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being historically situated and determined

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historicity

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Heidegger strongly opposes the view

that technology is X

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“a means to an end”

or “a human activity.”

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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.”

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“a means to an end”

or “a human activity.”