Heidegger’s early masterpiece Sein und Zeit (1927 Being and Time), which addresses the question of the fundamental nature of Being (the Seinsfrage), begins with a lengthy phenomenological analysis of Dasein-an investigation that Heidegger considered necessary in order to answer the Seinsfrage properly.įrom at least the time of René Descartes (1596–1650), a prominent philosophical conception of human nature has been that the human individual is a mere thinking subject (a mind, spirit, or soul) and is radically distinct from the material world and therefore cognitively isolated from it.

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