This lecture discusses the 20th century philosopher, Martin Heidegger, and focuses on his centrally important essay "What Is Metaphysics?"

Here we examine Heidegger's discussion about the relationship between what he terms "the nothing" and the operation or judgement of negation, including the "not". In Heidegger's view, the priority that the intellect and logic give to negation, deriving nothing from that, is mistaken and needs to be reversed

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