Heidegger:
We do not understand philosophy as
1. a cultural phenomenon, a realm of man’s creativity and the works that issue from it
2. a kind of unfolding of individual personalities as spiritual creators
3. a region of learning and teaching within a system of scientific values; a science
4. a worldview, completion, rounding off, and model of thought; also not as
5. philosophy of existence;
but as a questioning which in a fundamental way changes Dasein, human beings, and the understanding of being.
Notes from a Room 