Can someone please explain to me Heidegger's critics of Kant's metaphysics?

Answer 1

The late Leo Strauss summarized it best. Heidegger's critique of his own early thought is a mirror of Hegel's critique of Kant. Hegel recognized how his own philosophy belonged to the time in which he lived; Kant insisted upon a priori concepts which were common to all men at all times--a reality existed independent of men.

Heidegger effectively overthrew all the philosophical schools in a short time and established existentialism's primacy. He then realized that existentialism's claim to fully understand man's nature was only an understanding of man as he was during his own lifetime, a time when men were uncertain about the future of liberal democracy. The decline of Europe was tantamount to the decline of Western Civilization.

Heidegger then made a complete break with the objective elements he saw in existentialism and his earlier works and, unlike Kant's detached transcendental analytics of subjectivity, coherently described the (subjective) experience of existence without reference to objective truths. No attempt was made to develop an ethical component, obscuring what his accomplishment meant for society. Where Kant left room for mankind to think on what was objectively right and wrong, Heidegger's message seemed to be that this sort of thinking had exhausted itself. Serious scholars like Strauss knew there was no one (and there is still no one) to best Heidegger's assertion. There were plenty like Wittgenstein who busied themselves with examining language but did not go to the root of the West's crisis as did Heidegger.

Answer 2

Heidegger was basically critical of Western Metaphysics as a whole. That's why he was a phenomenologist. He thought that philosophy should be about looking into everyday phenomena and the nature of Dasein, rather than speculating on metaphysical questions that could lead you astray and into logical problems.

Answer 3

Yes sure, it is very easy. One day, Heidegger tried to read Kant's works and could not understand what he meant. He got into a violent rage, threw the books through the window, saying to his wife:"from now on I will do my best to tell the world that this Kant is a moron." I hope I helped you to do your homework....

Answer 4

well,

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