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Phenomenological Interpretation of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason

Abstract: The text of Martin Heidegger's 1927-28 university lecture course on Emmanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason presents a close interpretive reading of the first two parts of this masterpiece of modern philosophy. In this course, Heidegger continues the task he enunciated in Being and Time as the problem of dismatling the history of ontology, using temporality as a clue. Within this context the relation between philosophy, ontology, and fundamental ontology is shown to be rooted in the genesis of the modern mathematical sciences. Heidegger demonstrates that objectification of beings as beings is inseparable from knowledge a priori, the central problem of Kant's Critique. He concludes that objectification rests on the productive power of imagination, a process that involves temporality, which is the basic constitution of humans as beings.

Plato's Sophist

Abstract: This volume reconstructs Martin Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the winter semester of 1924-25, which was devoted to an interpretation of Plato and Aristotle. Published for the first time in German in 1992 as volume 19 of Heidegger's Collected Works, it is a major text not only because of its intrinsic importance as an interpretation of the Greek thinkers, but also because of its close, complementary relationship to Being and Time, composed in the same period. In Plato's Sophist, Heidegger approaches Plato through Aristotle, devoting the first part of the lectures to an extended commentary on Book VI of the Nichomachean Ethics. In a line-by-line interpretation of Plato's later dialogue, the Sophist, Heidegger then takes up the relation of Being and non-being, the ontological problematic that forms the essential link between Greek philosophy and Heidegger's thought.

Qué quiere decir pensar

Abstract: Llegaremos a aquello que quiere decir pensar si nosotros, por nuestra parte, pensamos. Para que este intento tenga exito tenemos que estar preparados para aprender el pensar. Asi que nos ponemos a aprender, ya estamos admitiendo que aun no somos capaces de pensar. Pero el hombre pasa por ser aquel ser que puede pensar. Y pasa por esto a justo titulo. Porque el hombre es el ser viviente racional. Pero la razon, la ratio, se despliega en el pensar. Como ser viviente racional, el hombre tiene que poder pensar cuando quiera. Pero tal vez el hombre quiere pensar y no puede. En ultima instancia, con este querer pensar el hombre quiere demasiado y por ello puede demasiado poco.