An Introduction to Metaphysics
by Martin Heidegger
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Author: Martin HeideggerTranslator: Ralph Manheim
Edition: Paperback
Audio: German (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1974-09-10
ISBN: 0300017405
Number of pages: 214
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Book Review: Translation of a modern classic in philosophy
Summary: 4 Stars
The single question is the subject that starts this lecture:
" Why are there essents rather than nothing?" In California English that is:
" Why is there something instead of nothing?".
Such a simple questions , it has four basic referents:
1) something ( existence, physics)
2) nothing ( lack of existence, null set)
3) Why ( motivation or external reference: what makes it metaphysics)
4) Finally the person asking "why", the observer; the human element.
He spends a lot of time ranting about what it all means:
he is a philosopher:
that is what they do( maybe not best, but well).
I can't give him a five star, because quantum mechanics was already well
underway in Germany at the time and he doesn't mention Heisenberg.
Actually it might have helped his reasoning to have made this connection.
We have traveled on in human time and a lot of people since have made the quantum mechanics connection
of observer and the something being observed
being changed by the observation.
Externals to the universe besides "nothing" and the "not observer" of the "Why" ( sometimes thought of as God or the creator?) and
we have cosmological theories
of other universes external to our own and physics being influenced by matter outside of the "something" that we can observe.
The meta-universe of metaphysics has expanded, so that God ( not observer external to something) now shares his domain with bubbling universes.
The information theory problem of Hawking and black holes
and ideas of what happened before the big bang brought up here.
The concept of something external to the something we can observe
that isn't also nothing or the "not observer" makes five total sectors to the new metaphysics and not the existential four.
Summary of An Introduction to Metaphysics
The German existentialist delineates his theories concerning the nature, problems, and limitations of man's being.Metaphysics Books
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