The Book, Cat, & Cat Book Lovers Almanac

of historical trivia regarding books, cats, and other animals. Actually this blog has evolved so that it is described better as a blog about cats in history and culture. And we take as a theme the advice of Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a writer, get some cats. Don't forget to see the archived articles linked at the bottom of the page.

May 26, 2009

May 26, 1976

Martin Heidegger, the German philosopher, who worked throughout the Nazi years at the University of Freiburg, died on May 26, 1976. We find the following in a translation of his book: The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic.

"Existence is the term for the sort of being we ourselves each are, human Dasein. A cat does not exist, but it lives. A stone neither lives nor exists but is present before us."

I guess you had to have been there.
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