On Heidegger's View Of Freedom

Heidegger paid much attention to the question of freedom. Heidegger's entire philosophy was an illustration about freedom. Actually , both the phenomenological description about Dasein and reconsidering about the truth, the language, the artist, the technology can be regarded as explanation about the significance of the freedom. Obviously, from Heidegger's view of freedom, we can obtain the essence of his thought and understand his existential philosophy better.Now, The human society is encountering many questions and many philosophers are looking for solutions from different angle and point, reconsidering the relationship between human and the world. Heidegger's view of freedom is particular statement about this relationship. His understanding about freedom provides a useful way to the contemporary society.After the western philosophy has developed for more than 2,000 years along the route built by Plato, Heidegger brought forward the old question—what is the significance of Being. Heidegger reconsidered the Being and found that Being demonstrates itself through a special existent—Dasein. Heidegger described his view of freedom through analysis about Dasein's survival condition. In his view, he thought freedom is Dasein's existing truth. This article consists three parts. The first part briefly states the venation of the view of freedom of the traditional metaphysics, particularly Germanic classical philosophy, and discusses how Heidegger criticized and inherited the view of freedom of traditional metaphysics. The second part dissertates Heidegger's existential view of freedom. The first demi-section analyses Dasein's ontological structure and expounds that the main point of freedom is Dasein's existing truth. The latter demi-section discusses the viewpoint that the freedom is existent's uncovering. The third part both analyses how Heidegger made the significance of freedom to unhiddeness and discusses the significance of Heidegger's view of freedom to the relationship between human and the world in contemporary society.Heidegger was considered as one of the most profound and influential thinkers in 20^th century. His thought was difficult to understand. It is also difficult to research and develop his thought. The purpose of this article is to understand Heidegger's humanistic idea from his view of freedom .