Raschke says that the philosopher, Martin Heidegger, tried to overcome metaphysics through "thinking of the Being" while attemtping to avoid nihilism. Raschke summarizes Heidegger's thought by saying that "Being is only revealed by its concealment." To put this as simply as possible, God (the Being) is a person (or more accurately, a personality) not a metaphysical principle. Postmoderns take this a step further by attempting to go beyond the "identification of God as a 'Being'" at all.

My question is this: Is Heidegger's idea an earth-shattering philosophical development?

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