title: NEGATIVITY AND QUESTION: ORIGINS OF “WHY-QUESTIONING” IN PHILOSOPHY OF HEIDEGGER
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metadata.value: VAVILOV, ANTON
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metadata.value: 2020-07-08T10:15:08Z
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metadata.value: 2020-07-08T10:15:08Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2020-03
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metadata.value: VAVILOV A. NEGATIVITY AND QUESTION: ORIGINS OF “WHY-QUESTIONING” IN PHILOSOPHY OF HEIDEGGER. Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology, 2020, vol. 9, issue 1, pp. 256–274.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/2226-5260-2020-9-1-256-274
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/18577
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metadata.value: The article constitutes an analysis of the question “why” in its transcendental and existential foundations.
  Based on Martin Heidegger’s philosophy, this question is shown to be the fundamental question
  of metaphysics. In his works written after “Being and Time” Heidegger increasingly focused on the
  “why” question, particularly as regards the inquiry as to “Why there is something rather than Nothing.”
  The latter constitutes the question of all questions and the key question of philosophizing. According
  to Heidegger, it is precisely though the capacity of “asking why” that human essence can be explicated.
  On this issue Heidegger’s fundamental ontology is at variance with Max Scheler’s philosophical anthropology,
  since “asking why” is more primordial than “saying no” favored by Scheler. However, Heidegger
  never seems to clarify the relationship between “why?” and “no!”. Therefore, in this article I will try
  to fill this gap by confronting Scheler with Heidegger as far as the problems of negativity, questioning,
  metaphysics and human essence are concerned. By reading Scheler’s The Human’s Place in the Cosmos
  and Heidegger’s What is Metaphysics? as reflections on the origin of metaphysics, one can draw the
  following conclusions: 1) Orientation to nothing is as fundamental for subjectivity as Scheler’s “saying
  no”; indeed, the Nothing which nothings gives access to that-what-is and establishes the World as
  openness. (2) The power of negativity in both cases reveals the strangeness and contingency of being.
  The fundamental question is made possible by the wonder at the experience of nothingness. (3) Therefore,
  Heidegger’s “asking why” appears to be derivative from “saying no”. However, in the conclusion
  I suggest an opposite interpretation based on the foundationless character of Dasein. Thereby “No”
  becomes possible only based on the permanent “Why” motivated by Dasein’s impossibility to know its
  own foundation.
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metadata.value: ru
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metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.value: Horizon. Studies in Phenomenology;Volume 9; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: questioning
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: negativity
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: metaphysics
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: basis
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: nothing
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Dasein
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Heidegger
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Scheler
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metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: NEGATIVITY AND QUESTION: ORIGINS OF “WHY-QUESTIONING” IN PHILOSOPHY OF HEIDEGGER
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metadata.value: Article
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