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Plato's Sophist

By Martin Heidegger

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2003
ISBN
025321629X, 9780253216298
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
75 MB (79116109 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental Thought
Pages
512\474
Topic
Education
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

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.

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