Heidegger's Notion of Care
Read this article and consider what Heidegger means by "care". How is Heidegger's notion of care different from how we usually understand the concept of care? What role does care play in Heidegger's analysis of our own being? What about this notion of truth makes it radically different from how you might commonly think of truth?
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976)
Martin Heidegger asks a question that he thinks has gone unanswered, perhaps ignored, but at the least forgotten by philosophy since the presocratic philosophers, especially Parmenides and Heraclitus, but also what may be the single oldest fragment in Greek philosophy, that of Anaximander.
...some other apeiron nature, from which come into being all the heavens and the world in them. And the source of coming-to-be for existing things is that into which destruction, too, happens. 'according to necessity [translating κατὰ τὸ χρεών]; for they pay penalty [translating διδόναι δίκην] and retribution to each other for their injustice according to the assessment of Time [personified as Chronos].
The information philosophy answer to Heidegger's question is the cosmic creation process.
With his great work, Sein und Zeit - Being and TIme, Heidegger hoped to return to a time when philosophers were more "open to Being."
Perhaps inspired by Franz Brentano's study on the many uses of the concept of Being (τὸ ὄν) in Aristotle, which also inspired Heidegger's mentor, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger's question is "What is Being? or "the Question of Being," as opposed to the multitude of time-bound, merely existing beings "thrown into the world" whom he called "das Seinde" (a plurality of beings that Heidegger wants to think about in its totality and thus a singularity) or "Dasein" - a human being thrown into the always already (immer schon) existent world.
From Parmenides, Heidegger takes the ideas that "Being Is," that "all is One," and beyond those to the thought that "Being and thinking are the same."
From Heraclitus, Heidegger learns that "Being Becomes," because "all is flux."
But most of all, from Friedrich Nietzsche, Heidegger takes the Eternal Return of the Same as a philosophical method of turning Becoming into Being. We may learn more about Heidegger's own thinking from reading his extraordinary and extensive commentary on Nietzsche's Eternal Return in Also Sprach Zarathustra and the posthumous Will to Power. Heidegger argued that the most important thought of Nietzsche did not appear in his published works, but could only be found in his Nachlass.
Source: Robert O. Doyle, https://www.informationphilosopher.com/solutions/philosophers/heidegger/
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