Gregory Fried is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. He is author of Heidegger's Polemos: From Being to Politics and editor (with Richard Polt) of A Companion to Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics.
Richard Polt is Professor in the Philosophy Department at Xavier University. He is author of The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy and Heidegger: An Introduction.

Translators' Foreword

THE FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION OF PHILOSOPHY

Summer Semester 1933

Introduction: The Fundamental Question of Philosophy and the Fundamental Happening of Our History

Main Part: The Fundamental Question and Metaphysics: Preparation for a Confrontation with Hegel

Chapter One. The Development, Transformation, and Christianization of Traditional Metaphysics

Chapter Two. The System of Modern Metaphysics and the First of Its Primary Determining Grounds: The Mathematical

Chapter Three. Determination by Christianity and the Concept of Mathematical-Methodological Grounding in the Metaphysical Systems of Modernity

Chapter Four. Hegel: The Completion of Metaphysics as Theo-logic

Conclusion

ON THE ESSENCE OF TRUTH

Winter Semester 1933-1934

Introduction: The Question of Essence as Insidious and Unavoidable

Part One. Truth and Freedom: An Interpretation of the Allegory of the Cave in Plato's Republic

Chapter One. The Four Stages of the Happening of Truth

Chapter Two. The Idea of the Good and Unconcealment

Chapter Three. The Question of the Essence of Untruth

Part Two. An Interpretation of Plato's Theaetetus With Regard to the Question of the Essence of Untruth

Chapter One. Preliminary Considerations on the Greek Concept of Knowledge

Chapter Two. Theaetetus's Answers to the Question of the Essence of Knowledge and their Rejection

Chapter Three. The Question of the Possibility of

Appendix I

Notes and drafts for the lecture course of Summer Semester 1933

Appendix II

Notes and drafts for the lecture course of Winter Semester 1933-1934

Editor's Afterword

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