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The Place of Earth and Gods in Heidegger’s Philosophy

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The earth and the gods are strange problems for philosophical investigation. The earth seems to be too obvious, too real to become a philosophical problem; and the gods, on the other hand, are too unreal to be of any interest for philosophical consideration; they can only have a religious, mythological, or possibly a poetical importance.

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© 1969 Martinus Nijhoff, The Hague, Netherlands

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Vycinas, V. (1969). The Place of Earth and Gods in Heidegger’s Philosophy. In: Earth and Gods. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3359-6_1

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