Heideggers Being

Heidegger believes that’s the role and ultimate goal of philosophy is to achieve an

understanding and awareness of one’s being. Heidegger rejects the modern idea of

progress which plans a projected future of society. Heidegger wants to block this

revolution, which is constant revolutionizing of modern ideas becoming, and therefore

rejects the basic belief of modernism, the belief in progress is not the belief in becoming.

Strauss believes that progress has become a problem and that progress has lead us to the

brink of an abyss and that we need to consider alternatives for modern progress. Strauss

believes that we were once on the right way and now we are on the wrong way. Both

Strauss and Heidegger agree that science and philosophy begin from what is naturally

given to human experience. Both philosophers agree with Nietzsche that modern idea of

progress has lead to the age of the last man which the last man is tired of life, does not

seek risks only comfort and security.

Mans understanding of his own being in the world is what gives him access to

other beings and gives them the chance to show themselves who they really are. When we

think about the question of being we need to realize that the question of being is as old as

man himself. Heidegger states that modern technology is the supreme danger which lies

with humans ability to listen, reflect and witness. Heidegger says “who accomplishes the

challenging setting-upon through which what we call the actual is revealed as standing-

reserve? Obviously man”# Heidegger believes to live authentically, one must discover

oneself in direct relation to the thing which is capable of thinking and capable of genuine

discourse. To be inauthentic is to be characterized by a kind of doubt in which one’s

relation to the crowd and the requirements of daily life. Heidegger states that “man so

decisively in subservience to on the