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Author: Sobota Daniel Title: HEIDEGGER’S PHILOSOPHY OF THE WAY (Heideggerowska filozofia drogi) Source: Filo-Sofija year: 2010, vol:.10, number: 2010/1, pages: 37-72 Keywords: PHILOSOPHY OF THE WAY, HEIDEGGER, BEING Discipline: PHILOSOPHY Language: POLISH Document type: ARTICLE Publication order reference (Primary author’s office address): E-mail: www:The purpose of this paper is to present Heidegger’s philosophy of the way. The term of way is common in the history of philosophy. Heidegger does not use this term as a useful “metaphor”, but treats it as a fundamental figure of his thoughts. The term of way can be understood twofold: 1. way as a place used for traveling, 2. way as being-on-the-way. Heidegger joints these two meanings to create his own way of thinking. From these two meanings there come to being fundamental oppositions: hiddenness and unhiddenness, falling and raising, openness and closeness, distance and closeness, vanity and fullness. Since the shape of Heidegger’s way is a circle, we get further categories: circle of understanding, reminder, coming back, turning. Characteristics of Heidegger’s way is described by such terms like dialectics, trichotomy and being-between. All the presented categories make the questioness of being itself