Martin Heidegger Visits Greece In 1962

Heidegger's philosophy is largely concerned with the historical role of post-Socratic Greek thought and the oblivion of Being - Heidegger always favored the fragments and poetic sayings of the pre-Socratics ... finally, in 1962, he traveled to Greece and is here shown at the Acropolis and at Delphi ... however it was at Delos (not shown) where he truly felt the "presence of that which grants Being-present" (Safranski) ... in the second part of the clip Heidegger responds to charges that he is only concerned with Being and not with human beings: "Being *needs* human beings.... One cannot ask about Being without asking about the essence of human beings ..."

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