Martin Heidegger and René Descartes
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"With the interpretation of man as subiectum, Descartes creates the metaphysical presupposition for future anthropology of every kind and tendency."--"The Age of the World Picture,” in Martin Heidegger" (1938), The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays Heidegger |
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Martin Heidegger and René Descartes
In Being and Time (1927), Heidegger addresses the meaning of "being" by considering the question, "what is common to all entities that makes them entities?" Heidegger approaches this question through an analysis of Dasein, his term for the specific type of being that humans possess, and which he associates closely with his concept of "being-in-the-world" (In-der-Welt-sein). This conception of the human is in contrast with that of Rationalist thinkers like René Descartes, who had understood human existence most basically as thinking, as in Cogito ergo sum ("I think therefore I am").
