Heidegger, Martin (1889–1976)
Heidegger defined his life project as asking the“question of being” – the question, “What makes entities of various sorts (rocks, tools, thoughts, numbers, etc.) the entities they are?”
In Being and Time (1927), he argues that the question of being must be prior to all other philosophical questions. “Regional”or “ontic” inquiries of various sorts (e.g., psychology, physics, epistemology, poetics) always operate with a set of tacit assumptions about the nature of the entities they study. These uncritical ontological assumptions preshape the inquiry, determining the kinds of questions one can ask and the answers that will make sense. In order to reflect critically on ontic inquiries, then, we need to work out an “ontology in general” – an account of being as such (see ontoloby)…
-This article is about Heidegger’ ideas about metaphysics, which was translated into Persian by Sedigheh Bayat.
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