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Heidegger

Heidegger

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A German philosopher who wrote about what it means to be human
  • proper noun
  • /ˈhaɪdɪɡər/
: Heidegger
  • "For the early Greeks, "Heidegger contends, this underlying hiddenness "is constitutive of the way beings are, "not only in relation to themselves "but also in relation to other entities generally.
  • Martin Heidegger
  • Heidegger's thought
  • Heidegger's notion

That is one of the main goals of Heidegger's work here in Being in Time.

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Examples

  • In this stay in which being is encountered, Heidegger adds, something "remarkable" is also said.

    Academic text (2017)
  • Arendt knows that Heidegger had not been able to see what everyone else understood about him.

    Fiction book (1996)
  • But is it not possible that Heidegger, in particular, is on to something?

    Academic text (2017)
  • In line with Heidegger, I further wonder: What kind of reality does the animal have access to?

    Academic text (2017)
  • Nature is, as the philosopher Martin Heidegger put it, just a vast gasoline station that we can endlessly extract from.

  • Authenticity begins, said Heidegger, when we have the courage to let nothingness encounter us.

    Fiction book (2002)
  • His reflections in the essay on "Logos" tell us more about Heidegger than Heraclitus.

    Academic text (2017)
  • In contrast, I can say something to myself silently without making a sound (Heidegger 2001, 87).

    Academic text (2017)
  • Heidegger agreed, and I went to Freiburg to work on Ficino while attending Heidegger's lectures and seminars.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Many scholars consider Martin Heidegger to be one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.

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Etymology

Heidegger is a German family name made from Heide meaning 'heath' or 'moor' and a common ending -gger meaning 'someone from' that place, so it originally meant a person who lived on the heath, and today it is the surname of the philosopher Martin Heidegger.