THE EVALUATION OF HEIDEGGER'S ONTOLOGICAL DECONSTRUCTION

📄 Project Abstract

The history of philosophy from the ancient times has been battling with what exactly the scope of metaphysics is. This very problem arose from against the understanding that metaphysics is one of the most important branches of philosophy. However, the divisions of metaphysics into two sub- branches, namely: cosmology and ontology goes a long way to show that the very scope of 'metaphysics' covers both physical and the non- physical grounds. But it appears that the very etymology of metaphysics as that which is 'beyond the physics' has engendered many reactions by philosophers of various epochs. During the ancient period, people held passionately to transcendental dictates and terms, an act which is believed rendered philosophy enigmatic and disinteresting in the later epochs. Philosophers like Anaximander saw a mysterious origin of the universe in the infinite boundless. For him, the world came as a result of a separating off from the vortex motion of the universe1. This infinite bound...