this study seeks to examine how teachers’ educational background (those who have educated in tefl in comparison to those who have educated in literature) may influence their beliefs and attitudes on language learning, teaching and the teaching methods they apply in their classes. on a general basis, depending on teachers’ opinion, learning process might be seen as behavioristic, inductive, inte...

Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time has been repeatedly criticized for ignoring the social and ethical dimensions of human existence. After discussing the possibility of an “ethics of individuation” based on passages from The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, I argue that Heidegger is not concerned with developing a social or moral philosophy as such but with the question of how individuation ...

The article analyzes Heidegger?s relation to National Socialism based on his private writing in the ?Black Notebooks,? published their entirety (nine volumes) this year. Although it is indisputable that Heidegger was an enthusiastic adherent of Socialist program between 1930 and 1934, writings show avowed philosophical delusion ?revolution? Germany going bring about a new beginning philosophy b...

Este trabalho busca compreender a centralidade da pergunta pelo ser na obra “Ser e tempo”, do filósofo alemão Martin Heidegger. A obra, publicada em 1927, corresponde uma investigação ontológica, por assim dizer, concreta, que esclarecer o sentido partindo de um ente determinado, somos nós. Heidegger é reconhecido como dos pensadores mais influentes século XX. tempo” representa, com efeito, mar...

A common view of early twentieth century philosophy correctly distinguishes three movements or tendencies, phenomenology, pragmatism and the beginnings of analytic philosophy, and claims that early phenomenology and pragmatism are two radically opposed philosophical positions. Early phenomenology, it is said, is in the tradition of the logical objectivisms of Bolzano and Frege. It is only with ...

Nietzsche’s criticisms were directed against what he reckons as the progressive ‘moral’ disintegration of late 19 century Germany. He described morality as “the doctrine of the relations of supremacy (Herrschafts-Verhältnissen) under which the phenomenon of ‘life’ comes to be.” This definition, however, is broad and mired in ambiguity, and as will be pointed out later, escapes multitudinous ‘mo...

After describing Heidegger's critique of metaphysics as ontotheology, I unpack the metaphysical assumptions of several transhumanist philosophers. I claim that they deploy an ontology of power and that they also deploy a kind of theology, as Heidegger meant it. I also describe the way in which this metaphysics begets its own politics and ethics. In order to transcend the human condition, they m...