Martin+Heidegger

=MARTIN HEIDEGGER=

Biography
Martin Heidegger born September 16,1889 in Messkirch, Germany and died may 26, 1976.He was 20th century German philosopher.His farther was a roman catholic sexton, at a early age Martin showed interested in religion.He began theological studies at the university of Freiburg in 1909, then switch to philosophy and mathematics in 1911.Heidegger completed his doctoral thesis on psychologist in 1914 influenced by the Noe-Thomism and Noe-Kantian and in 1916 he finished his "venia legendi" with a thesis on Duns Scotus influenced by other philosophers such as Heinrich Rickert and Edmund Husserl. He served in world war 1, soon after that he was offered a job at the university of Freiburg as philosopher Edmund Husserl academic assistant.

Writing
Heidegger his known for his book being and time, in his book his primary subject was to define the word (being) and to know if the world have an answer to the question[1]. “Heidegger made it his task to show that there is a meaningful concept of the being of all being”, in being and time he use words such as(Dasein) meaning is the entity which in its being “awareness” or “way of life”, and his work introduced a number of concept that later received a lot of attention in the philosophy world, for example “being –in- the- world”, “being-unto-death “, “nothingness”[2]being and nothingness. even though Heidegger work was all about existence, he doesn’t deny “theoretical stance for himself”. The book influenced many other philosophers. Martin Heidegger later years were devoted more to (hermeneutics) “defined as an approach to linguistics” that focuses on language as relational and conceive of words as events “ he saw language as essential to being and wrote that only where there is language is there a world”.

Reference [] The Cambridge companion to Heidegger http://www.philosophypages.com/ph/heid.htm