Heidegger’s Doctrine Of Authenticity In Nigeria Politics

CHAPTER ONEGENERAL INTRODUCTION1.0    BACKGROUND OF THE STUDYWhile philosophy began in wonder and curiosity about the nature of the universe, it progressed uninterruptedly through the ancient and medieval periods and infact, into the early modern era with its singular object: the search for the ultimate meaning of being. Hence, thinkers like Plato, Aristotle, Thomas Aquinas, Hegel, e.t.c. Conceived being as the most abstract and universal concept. However, their inability to sustain the question of the meaning of being brought in the initial shortcoming of traditional metaphysic…