ABSTRACT
The fundamental question for Heidegger was: What is the meaning of ‘Being’? Although he was a faithful pupil of Husserl for many years, he took the view that phenomenology as a scientific method risks losing track of the simple fact of being. His objective was to elucidate the notion of being and throughout his career he returned to the central mystery of there being something rather than nothing. As a pupil of Husserl, Heidegger had come to believe that human beings are the privileged place where being is manifested in a special way. The investigation of the way in which human beings are in the world is therefore the first step we need to take if we want to throw light on being itself. Indeed, we have no other or better way of finding out about Being.
