Original sentence: As a result, Heidegger claims, philosophy has overlooked fundamentally different ways of being and misunderstood the nature of human existence.In numerous books and essays from the late 1920s until his death, Heidegger argued that Western philosophy is based on questionable assumptions about the nature of being and time.In particular, Heidegger claimed that philosophers from ancient Greece onward have tended to shoehorn all questions about being into categories better suited to describe the detached contemplation of inert, unchanging objects.Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976), German philosopher.To avoid these endemic errors, Heidegger believes he must restart philosophical inquiry in a sharply different way, using a novel vocabulary and undertaking an extended criticism of the history of philosophy
Edited sentence: ", the question of Being, Heidegger peels away the layers of accreted assumptions philosophy made over the centuries.For Heidegger, Socrates and Plato were the first to disorient Philosophy.In a concentrated effort to come to terms with the fundamental question, "Why is there something rather than nothing.Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976), German philosopher, succeeded in reorienting Western philosophy away from a metaphysics of presence and toward a metaphysics that questions its own history