In-der-Blog-sein

Timothy Smeghead struggles.

[M]y paper is on a Philosopher and Existentialist named Martin Heidegger. Now, the problem with writing a paper on Heidegger is that he never actually tells you what his theories are, he just gives vague allusions to round-about ways of thinking which might, might, get you into his state of mind. But he never actually says a damned thing. I sat in Barnes & Noble the other night reading through the introduction to Being And Time (his first book) over and over again, waiting for him to slip up and actually reveal what he was talking about.

The problem is in expecting a theory. For theories, look to the sciences. Philosophy is about asking questions; best question wins. In the intro, he's quite explicit about what he's asking: the question of being--the pre-ontological understanding of Being.  ¶ 6:11 AM