Presented in this volume the lessons taught by Martin Heidegger in the winter of 1937/38, in which the author deals with the fundamental metaphysical position of Plato, the transition from the modern Greek metaphysics and Christian, and the fundamental positions of Descartes , Leibniz, Kant and German idealism. While Descartes and Leibniz are the focus of the exercises, the interpretation is significant that the author makes the positive and negative philosophy of Schelling, which here becomes accessible for the first time to research._x000D_
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Through critical reflection on the essential fundamental metaphysical positions of Western thought, the author leads us to further thinking of the difference of Being