Letter on Humanism
"Letter on Humanism" (
Sartre's position and existentialism in general in this letter.[2]
Content
Heidegger responds to Sartre's famous address, Existentialism says existence precedes essence. In this statement he is taking existentia and essentia according to their metaphysical meaning, which, from Plato's time on, has said that essentia precedes existentia. Sartre reverses this statement. But the reversal of a metaphysical statement remains a metaphysical statement. With it, he stays with metaphysics, in oblivion of the truth of Being.[3]being-for-itself. Sartre's existentialism is criticized in the letter:
See also
References
- ^ M. Heidegger Über den Humanismus, Klostermann Frankfurt am Main, 1949.
- ^ William J. Richardson, Martin Heidegger: From Phenomenology to Thought, Martjinus Nijhoff, 1967, p. 351.
- ISBN 978-0-7100-8646-4.
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