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The Rehabilitation of Rhetorical Humanism

Regarding Heidegger's Anti-Humanism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2024

Ernesto Grassi

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Heidegger's affirmation is categorical: “… the thinking expressed in Being and Time is against humanism”. Heidegger's thesis is not only categorical, it is also polemical. He maintains that the humanist conception does not grasp man's essence, and it is for this reason that he is opposed to humanism, which is a doctrine that “has not thought profoundly enough of man's humanitas.

Type
Research Article
Information
Diogenes , Volume 36 , Issue 142 , June 1988 , pp. 136 - 156
Copyright
Copyright © 1988 Fédération Internationale des Sociétés de Philosophie / International Federation of Philosophical Societies (FISP)

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