Heigegger is someone we briefly talked about in class. But he is scandalous, and he really relates back to questions first posed by Plato.
"For many Heidegger’s reputation is tainted by his association with Nazism in 1930’s Germany; he actively supported Adolf Hitler during the dictator’s first years in power and after World War II he was banned by the Allies from teaching and publishing for five years.
Despite this, his work has been widely influential, especially on the thought of twentieth century philosophical giants such as Sartre, Lacan and Derrida." (Excerpt from bbc.co.uk)
Thanks Brian. Do tell me though how you think Heidegger's philosophy may relate to the Pre-Socratic or the sophists. Do you agree with my argument that he, in many ways, follows a sophistic example by reminding us that our understanding of the world and Being begins with man i.e Dasein as being in the world. In other words, like the sophists who reject all otherworldly considerations and only focus on the subject man and his concerns in the world, so to Heidegger calls us back to ourselves and to an anthropomorphic understanding of the world.
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