Philosophic Classics From Plato to Derrida

INTRODUCTION TOMETAPHYSICS 1113 fundamental rule of speech (logos), against “logic.” Talking about Nothing is illogical. Whoever ...

1114 MARTINHEIDEGGER explicitly, of arbitrariness. This mere suspicion already counts as an argument and an objection, and one t ...

INTRODUCTION TOMETAPHYSICS 1115 for example, an infestation turns up, something indisputably present at hand. One asks: where do ...

1116 MARTINHEIDEGGER What we know about how such questioning happens is all too little and all too crude. In this questioning, w ...

INTRODUCTION TOMETAPHYSICS 1117 We encounter beings everywhere; they surround us, carry and control us, enchant and fulfill us, ...

1118 MARTINHEIDEGGER after decades one still has the scent in ones nose. The scent provides the Being of this being much more di ...

INTRODUCTION TOMETAPHYSICS 1119 asking about is almost like Nothing, and yet we are always trying to arm and guard ourselves aga ...

1120 MARTINHEIDEGGER assassination attempt against a king in France and a symphony concert in Tokyo; when time is nothing but sp ...

INTRODUCTION TOMETAPHYSICS 1121 ultimately what matters is not that the word “Being” remains just a noise for us and its meaning ...

1122 MARTINHEIDEGGER From the fundamental question of metaphysics, “Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?” we have ext ...

INTRODUCTION TOMETAPHYSICS 1123 science of history can never institute the historical relation to history It can only illumi- na ...

1124 MARTINHEIDEGGER longer strong enough to stand up to the greatness, breadth, and originality of that spiri- tual world—that ...

INTRODUCTION TOMETAPHYSICS 1125 divided up into regions. The spiritual world becomes culture, and in the creation and conservati ...

1126 MARTINHEIDEGGER question of Being, is then one of the essential fundamental conditions for awakening the spirit, and thus f ...

1127 Ludwig Wittgenstein was born into one of Vienna’s leading families. His father, Karl, was a wealthy steel industrialist and ...

1128 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN Wittgenstein immersed himself in philosophical studies, filling notebooks with ideas. When World War I b ...

INTRODUCTION 1129 Thirty-five years later, he still maintained this philosophical position: “Philosophy is a battle against the ...

1130 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN Among the many general introductions to Wittgenstein’s life and thought, Anthony Kenney,Wittgenstein(Cam ...

TRACTATUSLOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS 1131 TRACTATUS LOGICO-PHILOSOPHICUS (in part) PREFACE Perhaps this book will be understood only by ...

1132 LUDWIGWITTGENSTEIN 1.11 The world is determined by the facts, and by their being allthe facts. 1.12 For the totality of fac ...