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This paper focuses on Heidegger's central concern, which was with the nature of Being. Unlike many of his contemporaries, who were most interested in questions of epistemology, Heidegger was interested not in how we know things, but rather in what is the essential nature of these things, or the essential nature of Being. In this essay, the origins of Heidegger's lifelong fascination with this foundational, ontological issue will be discussed, as well as Heidegger's contention that science has lost much of its philosophical perspective.

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"Heidegger's central concern was with the nature of Being. Unlike many of his contemporaries, who were most interested in questions of epistemology, Heidegger was interested not in how we know things, but rather in what is the essential nature of these things, or the essential nature of Being. In this essay, the origins of Heidegger's lifelong fascination with this foundational, ontological issue will be discussed. As will be shown, Heidegger succeeded in making a compelling argument that in building the edifice of sciences, philosophers had forgotten a question first raised by Aristotle - what is the nature of Being upon which, and from which, we are ..."

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