Rethink.

1. Heidegger cites Kant as giving us a “fundamental feature of modern science:” …modern science is mathematical. From Kant comes the oft-quoted but still little understood sentence, “However, I maintain that in any particular doctrine of nature only so much genuine science can be found as there is mathematics to be found in it” (Preface …

One could well imagine instances in which such sights would serve to confirm something thought; for example, that the sight of the pyramids might have served to confirm what Kant had thought about the estimation of magnitudes in judgments of the sublime. But in the case of Heidegger’s travel to Greece, even the sense of …

It is empty and cold here. On the ground are wires, atop a table are papers, in front of me is a screen. These are things that are nothing – when I die, all of this will be disposed of promptly, and new occupants will bring in new objects. Heidegger discusses a farmhouse in “Building …

“Introduction to metaphysics” accordingly means: leading into the asking of the fundamental question. But questions, and above all fundamental questions, do not simply occur like stones and water. Questions are not given like shoes, clothes, or books. Questions are as they are actually asked, and this is the only way in which they are. Thus …