Uvod u filozofiju

by Eugen Fink, Božica Zenko (Translator)

Genres: Philosophy

232 pages

First published January 1, 1946

About the author

Fink was born in 1905 as the son of a government official in Germany. He spent his first school years with an uncle who was a catholic priest. Fink attended a gymnasium in Konstanz where he succeeded with his extraordinary memory. After his graduation exam in 1925, he studied philosophy, history, German language and economics, initially at Münster and Berlin and then in Freiburg with Edmund Husserl.

Husserl's assistant, he was a representative of phenomenological idealism and later a follower of Martin Heidegger. He approached the problem of Being as a manifestation of the cosmic movement with Man being a participant in this movement. Fink called the philosophical problems pre-questions, that will lead to the true philosophy by the way of an ontological practice.

Reviews

[Public_enemy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very well organized introduction to philosophy and in the same time good insight into Husserl's and Heidegger's teachings. Main theme of this introductory book is difference between natural attitude and philosophy, reason and mind. Although first "attempts" are pure negativity, constructive philosophy starts exactly when wondering why we take some things as "self-evident". To get in the right position, we need to bring into question - the whole World (Being) (the horizon where all individual things can actually appear). After we questioned the World, another important problems of philosophy are problem of the Truth and problem of the God. These 3 questions are fundamental. Philosophy is kind of an inverted World.