"It is what it is." Mr. Trump's most profound statement.
"It is what it is." Mr. Trump's most profound statement.
Martin Heidegger covered that in Being and Time, a 1927 book by the German philosopher, in which the author seeks to analyse the concept of Being. Heidegger attempts to revive ontology through a reawakening of the question of the meaning of being.
Frederich Nietzsche had words about "it" also in Thus Spake Zarathrustra, a philosophical novel by the German philosopher, composed in four parts written and published between 1883 and 1885.
Either/Or by Søren Kierkegaard pondered "it" and "not it" in two volumes in 1843.
For both George Wilhelm Hegel and Immanuel Kant, we arrive at the concept of the "it" in itself by removing, or abstracting from, everything in our experiences of objects of which we can become conscious.
In Sartrean existentialism, being-in-itself is also contrasted with the being of persons, which he describes as a combination of, or vacillation or tension between, being-for-itself and being-for-others.
One of the problems of human existence for Sartre is the desire to attain being-in-itself, which he describes as the desire to be God — this is a longing for full control over one's destiny and for absolute identity, only attainable by achieving full control over the destiny of all existence.
Last, Aristotle nails "it": His writings cover many subjects including physics, biology, zoology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, poetry, theatre, music, rhetoric, psychology, linguistics, economics, politics, and government. Aristotle provided a complex synthesis of the various philosophies existing prior to him. It was above all from his teachings that the West inherited its intellectual lexicon, as well as problems and methods of inquiry. As a result, his philosophy has exerted a unique influence on almost every form of knowledge in the West and it continues to be a subject of contemporary philosophical discussion.