Status Updates From Introduction to Metaphysics

And I thought Kant was difficult... This may be one of the most challenging philosophy books I've ever picked up.

On the earth, all over it, a darkening of the world is happening. The essential happenings in this darkening are: the flight of the gods, the destruction of the earth, the reduction of human beings to a mass, the preemnence of the mediocre.

at last!

This is by no means an easy read at all. There is a lot to decipher within each sentence which makes this book not a fast read but a very slow one. Nonetheless, it begins by asking the famous question by Lebniz 'why is there something rather than nothing.' perhaps the most important question to ever ask.

The etymology of the word Being

From one book that touches on existentialism through an alternative reality, now onto another book that asks `what does it mean to ask the question`, lets see if Heidegger can provide any answers