Abstract
The essay concerns Heidegger's early Freiburg lectures. These lectures are closely related to Husserl, while at the same time they deepen his approach, not only through their reference to pre-theoretical, factual life, but also by the determination of an "origin", which is the aim of the phenomenological description of life. Following Husserls conception of the pure Ich Heidegger develops the term of execution (Vollzug). This term denotes a form of being and remains therefore separated from the framework of a philosophy of the subject. Methodically the execution is not given with the determinacy of an essence, but means rather a nothing within life. It can be approached only through an increasing intensity of phenomenological understanding. Thus philosophy can make the truth of life understandable only in an individual existence. The origin can conceptually be described as the negativity of life, which transcends in its motion all singular contents. Philosophy must take over this negativity, in order to keep the origin free of all dissimulating contents.
Translated title of the contribution | Martin Heidegger: Philosophy as intensity |
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Original language | German |
Pages (from-to) | 311-334 |
Number of pages | 24 |
Journal | Philosophisches Jahrbuch |
Volume | 112 |
Issue number | PART 2 |
State | Published - 2005 |