Being and Time
1927 · 592 pages
Philosophy forgot to ask what it means for anything to exist. Heidegger rebuilds the question around the ordinary human being, thrown into a world he did not choose and running out of time.
★ 8.5
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The Metaphysics
350 BC · 459 pages
Aristotle asks what a thing most fundamentally is, and the answer runs through matter, form, and cause to a god who moves the whole world simply by being loved.
★ 7.6