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EPISODE · Aug 8, 2013

PREVIEW-Episode 80: Heidegger on our Existential Situation

from The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast · host Mark Linsenmayer

On Martin Heidegger's "Letter on Humanism" (1949). What's our place in the world? What is it, really, to be human? Heidegger thought that being human hinges on having a proper relationship to Being, which is more basic than particular beings like people and tables and such, yet it being so close, Heidegger thinks it's hardest to see, and easy to be distracted from. Looking for the full Citizen version? The post PREVIEW-Episode 80: Heidegger on our Existential Situation first appeared on The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast.

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