Airachelle Rivera Constantino

Constantino, Airachelle R.

ABM III-IA

                                                                       Martin Heidegger

          Being is a real or imaginary living creature, especially an intelligent one. Being is the most important part of a person’s mind or self. It is the quality that constitute existent thing or essence. It is known as the nature or essence of a person.

          There was a German philosopher who’s born in rural McBkirch Germany on the 26^th day of the month of September in the year of 1889, and died on the 26^th day of the month of May in the year of 1976 in West Germany. He is known as the son of Johanna and Friedrich Heidegger and his name is Martin Heidegger. He raised Roman Catholic and known as the son of the sexton village church that adhered to the First Vatican Council of 1870, which was observed mainly by the poorer class of McBkirch. His family could not afford to send him to University, so he entered to Jesuit seminary but he tuned away within weeks because of the health requirements. He was short and sinewy, with dark piercing eyes. He was married to Elfride Petri on the 21^st day of May ,in the year of 1997, in a Catholic ceremony officiated by his friend Engelbert Krebs, a week later in  Protestant ceremony in the presence of his parents. Their first son, named Jorg was born on the year of 1919 and Elfride gave birth to Hermann in the year of 1920. Heidegger knew that he was not the biological father of Hermann but he raised him as his own child. The biological father of Hermann become godfather to his son, who’s family friend and doctor Friedel Caesar. Hermann was told of this at the age of 14 and he become a historian and would later serve as the executor of Heidegger’s will.

           His first and best known book, being and time is one of the famous philosophies he made. His philosophy named “Being ad Time” is founded on the conjoin of what he considers two fundamental insights, the first one is his observation that in the course of over 2000 years of history, philosophy has attended to all the beings that can be found in the World including the world itself, but has forgotten to ask what being itself is.  He thought that the presence of things for us is not their being, but merely them interpreted as equipment according to particular system of meaning and purpose.

          According to Heidegger’s philosophy, Heidegger criticized the abstract and metaphysical character of traditional ways of grasping human existence as rational animal, person, man, soul, spirit, or subject. For him, this meant understanding that experience is always already situated in a world and in a way of being. Thus Husserl’s understanding that all consciousness is intentional in the sense that is always intended toward something, and is always about something is transformed in Heidegger’s philosophy, becoming the thought that all experience is grounded in care. This is the basis of Heidegger’s existential analytic, as he develop it in being and time. Heidegger argues that describing experience properly entails finding the being for whom such as a description matter. He conducts his description of experience with reference to dasein, the being for whom being is a question.

          Therefore I may rather say that the philosophy of Martin Heidegger is very unique and has a particular point that is very remarkable in the mind of many people who will encounter and recognize what he was been discussed about his philosophy. His philosophy need a deep understanding in order for us to understand the meaning of it, not simply knowing the coverage of his philosophy, but how it is said by Martin Heidegger. It is knowing what comes in his mind and for us to analyze, understand, and critique what we’ve  learned after reading his work. There’s a lot of thing to know about his philosophy, if we’re going to expand our knowledge. I may rather say that being addressed to Heidegger’s philosophy is not a man as human being but an object who existed with a common purpose. One of my reason why I choose his philosophy is because I want to critique my fundamental understanding about being itself.

          I suggest that Martin Heidegger needs a deep explanation of his philosophy itself. His reason why he said that being is not a man, but an object. If I were him, I want to elaborate my deep explanation for us to understand it clearly. He needs to express his thought for us to analyze and interpret his point of view about his philosophy. He may also give some examples about being as an object and give some wisdom words to represent the fundamental values of his philosophy.