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Heidegger and Learning

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“What is lacking, then, is action, not thought….We must be ready and willing to listen.” Martin Heidegger, What is Called Thinking? (Heidegger 1968. Henceforth cited parenthetically as WCT.).

“The hardest apprenticeship is that by which [people] learn how to hear and heed no imperative other than that relation…‘setting the human logos in its proper relation to the Logos’.” Reiner Schürmann, Heidegger On Being and Acting: From Principles to Anarchy (Schürmann 1987).

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Martin Heidegger returned to the University of Freiburg in the winter semester of 1951, and in the following summer of 1952 he delivered his final lectures before his formal retirement from the university. Those lecture courses were organized under the title Was heisst Denken? or the question what is called thinking? or what calls thinking? (In his editor’s note, Krell writes, “What is called thinking? What calls for thinking? Both questions try to translate the title of Heidegger’s 1951–1952 lecture course Was...

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Duarte, E.M. (2017). Heidegger and Learning. In: Peters, M.A. (eds) Encyclopedia of Educational Philosophy and Theory. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-287-588-4_132

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