After Being and Time, Heidegger always connects his principal philosophical terms such as Dasein, metaphysics and nihilism, etc. to words like “european’’, “western’’ and “West’’. In this way, he turns his philosophical termes into a discourse about ...
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After Being and Time, Heidegger always connects his principal philosophical terms such as Dasein, metaphysics and nihilism, etc. to words like “european’’, “western’’ and “West’’. In this way, he turns his philosophical termes into a discourse about the Western. As well as, Heidegger often had dealt with Spengler's the decline of the West in his early lectures in the beginning of second decade of the last century. These indicate subject matter of "the West-problem’’ in his philosophy. On the other hand, Heidegger is in conversation with the Far East, especially after the Second World War., a dialogue that he speaks about them in his main philosophical themes like Being, nothingness, Dasein, metaphysics, etc. However, his relationship with East Asia was bygone and returns to early of second decade of the last century. These instances indicate subject matter of “the East-problem’’ in his philosophy too. In addition, both mentioned problems are interwined. Therefore, it must be understood together in a matter of “East and West’’. This article attempt to show Heidegger's major philosophical themeswith a brief mention to the extent of the relationship between unified subject of east and west together which reflects the thinking of this great thinker and hence it should be considered as the basis of understanding and interpretation of Heidegger's thinking. But the centrality of the West-East-Problem in no way contradicts the question of being, that Heidegger declared as the main subject of his philosophy, because it also is associated with Heidegger's question. For this reason, this question can also be asked as question from him
