Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is one of the most influential -- and
controversial -- philosophers of the twentieth century. He is mostly
associated with existentialism (the study of human experience) and
phenomenology (the study of consciousness), and his work was enormously
influential.
In this story, Heidegger is exploring the relationship between "beings"
and their environments. How much does each - the rock, the lizard and
the human - understand of the world around them?
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