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Introduction to Metaphysics

Introduction to Metaphysics
Martin Heidegger Original title Einführung in die Metaphysik (German, 1953)

Introduction to Metaphysics is a book by Martin Heidegger of a revised and edited lecture course he gave in the summer of 1935 at the University of Freiburg. The work is famous for Heidegger's powerful reinterpretation of Greek thought, but has been widely regarded as fascist in character.

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“Why are there beings at all, and why not rather nothing? That is the question.”

Martin Heidegger book Introduction to Metaphysics

Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts? Das ist die Frage.
What is Metaphysics? (1929), p. 110
Cf. Gottfried Leibniz, De rerum originatione radicali (1697)ː "cur aliquid potius extiterit quam nihil."
Source: Introduction to Metaphysics

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“What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N. S. [National Socialism], but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement [namely the encounter between global technology and modern humanity] is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.”

Martin Heidegger book Introduction to Metaphysics

Introduction to Metaphysics (1953) — a publication of lectures of 1935.

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