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    This article discusses Heidegger's etymological method and the challenges it poses for readers. It notes that Heidegger often uses language and terms unique to his own works, making direct translation difficult. To fully understand Heidegger's texts, readers must familiarize themselves with his literature and method of deriving meanings from a word's original etymology and history. The article argues that Heidegger's etymological approach can help recover the original significance of terms and that understanding his methodology is important for accurately interpreting his philosophy.

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    This article discusses Heidegger's etymological method and the challenges it poses for readers. It notes that Heidegger often uses language and terms unique to his own works, making direct translation difficult. To fully understand Heidegger's texts, readers must familiarize themselves with his literature and method of deriving meanings from a word's original etymology and history. The article argues that Heidegger's etymological approach can help recover the original significance of terms and that understanding his methodology is important for accurately interpreting his philosophy.

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    This article discusses Heidegger's etymological method and the challenges it poses for readers. It notes that Heidegger often uses language and terms unique to his own works, making direct translation difficult. To fully understand Heidegger's texts, readers must familiarize themselves with his literature and method of deriving meanings from a word's original etymology and history. The article argues that Heidegger's etymological approach can help recover the original significance of terms and that understanding his methodology is important for accurately interpreting his philosophy.

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    Chris Ivan Lagarde

    Metaphysics
    Rev. Fr. Ulrich Gacayan, RCJ

    Heidegger’s Etymological Method

    Heidegger is considered as one of the greatest thinker in the field of philosophy. Great are his

    works. Indeed he is a brilliant thinker. In this article the author subject his essay on Heidegger’s

    etymology. The discussion in this article mainly focuses on Heidegger’s etymology as language is

    concern. This article objects the problem behind Heidegger’s language. The problem is that the language

    and the words that he used in his books. Reading Heidegger’s work is not an easy one like just reading an

    ordinary text. On the first place the first thing to be noticed is the languages of Heidegger although he is a

    German his word are quietly different. Indeed the problem is found in the language of Heidegger. In

    order to have a vivid understanding of Heidegger’s work one must to have an inclination with

    Heidegger’s literature. For the reason that Heidegger has his own literature. He used words and terms that

    can only be found in his works. Thus Heidegger has his own jargon.

    Heidegger’s language poses certain problem to those who are not native German speakers

    especially to English native reader. English is considered as the universal language in the world. But

    when it comes in translating the work of Heidegger in other language there are certain words that cannot

    be directly translated. Because those words are only found in his works even in German literature it’s not

    there. That’s why one must really incline with Heidegger’s literature. As this article is concerned the

    author stresses the method in understanding Heidegger work. It is important to know the words used by

    Heidegger in order to have deep understanding of the text. Matthew King the author of this article

    described how Heidegger does his etymology in making his own terms. It is important to know the

    method by Heidegger to rich the very meaning of the word and to know does it mean. Every word has a

    correspondent etymology and history behind. In order to seek the very meaning one must follow
    Heidegger’s etymological method. This method by Heidegger does not mean that it will replace and put

    down other method and modern concepts.

    The purpose of this method is to rich out the original meaning of the word. Perhaps reading not

    knowing the meaning of the word is obscure to understand the real purpose of the term. The way

    Heidegger makes use of his own term always delves and incorporates by hermeneutics. It is the role of

    hermeneutics to trace back and recover the meaning of the text. Since we are dealing here with the

    etymological method of Heidegger it would be nice to recall what did Schleiermacher said about

    understanding the text that in order to understand more fully the meaning of the text one must go back to

    the author of the text. She/he is the one who knows it better. Considered that Heidegger is an author, one

    must really go back and follow Heidegger’s method in order to have a better understanding of his work. It

    restores the original meaning of the word.

    Therefore in this article Heidegger’s etymological method is a very important element in order to

    recover the original meaning of the text. The concerned of this article is to save the language used by

    Heidegger and retrieve the real meaning of the word. Indeed this method proposed by the author of this

    article is a great help for the reader of Heidegger’s work. A philosopher like Heidegger is not easy to

    understand.

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