Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic"
Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic" (Studies In Continental Thought) by Martin Heidegger, translated by Richard Rojcewicz, André Schuwer
English | June 22, 1994 | ISBN: 0253326850 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 2.2 MB
English | June 22, 1994 | ISBN: 0253326850 | True EPUB | 216 pages | 2.2 MB
This is the first English translation of a lecture course Martin Heidegger presented at the University of Freiburg in 1937–1938. Heidegger’s task here is to reassert the question of the essence of truth, not as a “problem” or as a matter of “logic,” but precisely as a genuine philosophical question, in fact the one basic question of philosophy. Thus, this course is about the essence of truth as well as the essence of philosophy itself.
On both sides Heidegger draws extensively upon the ancient Greeks, on their understanding of truth as aletheia and their determination of the beginning of philosophy as the disposition of wonder. In addition, these lectures were presented at the time that Heidegger was composing his second magnum opus, Beiträge zur Philosophie, and provide the single best introduction to that complex and crucial text.