Martin Heidegger’s Way of Thinking: Its Steps and significant Stages

Abstract

The present paper gives an overview of Heidegger's way of thinking, but against the main stream of his studies, that divides his thinking in two steps: before the so called "the turn" and after it. Thus it has been talked about Heidegger I and II too. This paper but presents his thinking as a way with some turns, that can be summarized into four main steps. Heidegger himself talks about three formulations and three steps of his question of being: “the question of the meaning of being”, the “question concerning the truth of being” and finally the “question concerning the location of being” or "topology of Being". This article recognizes the time before summer 1923 as the fourth step, in which Heidegger’s thinking belong to Philosophy of life. So the task of this paper is the explication of these steps, their spans and their relations to each other.