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Understanding Human Existence through Ontology
TLDR Philosophers throughout history, including Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, have explored ontology to understand human existence by examining the essence of thoughts and beings through phenomenology, idetic reduction, and the concept of Dasein.
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Philosophers in ancient Athens debated the definition of a human being, leading to the emergence of the branch of philosophy known as ontology.
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Philosophers throughout history have pondered the existence of thoughts and beings, leading to the exploration of ontology, a field Martin Heidegger considered the most important in philosophy.
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Edmund Husserl's focus on certainty through phenomenology involves examining the subjective lens of human consciousness to better understand the underlying structure of human thought.
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Husserl suggests that by suspending our belief in the natural attitude and recognizing its biases and assumptions, we can develop a phenomenological attitude to focus on the essence of our experiences.
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Husserl used idetic reduction as a method to search for the essence of human experiences by creatively varying different components to find necessary and invariable aspects.
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Heidegger shifted the focus of phenomenology from analyzing human thought structures to questioning the essence of existence and what it means to be a human being.
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Heidegger questions the mutual consensus among philosophers about the essence of being a human being and challenges the assumption of a subject-object relationship in understanding the external world.
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Heidegger introduces the concept of Dasein, emphasizing the inseparable connection between being and the world, challenging the traditional subject-object relationship in philosophy.
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Being, according to Heidegger, is something that all entities, including humans, animals, trees, and rocks, are engaged in, united under the concept of "team being," challenging the traditional subject-object relationship in philosophy.
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