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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2015

Pages: 9-22

Series: Contributions to Phenomenology

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401796781

Full citation:

Andrew Haas, "The ambiguity of being", in: Heidegger in the twenty-first century, Berlin, Springer, 2015

Abstract

In the twenty-first century, philosophy still needs to raise the question of the meaning of being. We therefore, follow Heidegger's return to Parmenides—for being is neither a being nor a concept; rather, it is an essentially ambiguous universal. Being's ambiguity allows us to understand both why it withdraws from thought and why there is something rather than nothing. The problem for philosophy then becomes: How can we think the original ambiguity of being without disambiguating it? Heidegger's answer—ironically or not—is by not thinking it.

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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2015

Pages: 9-22

Series: Contributions to Phenomenology

ISBN (Hardback): 9789401796781

Full citation:

Andrew Haas, "The ambiguity of being", in: Heidegger in the twenty-first century, Berlin, Springer, 2015