Destruction as a Step in Heidegger's Phenomenology

One of the most controversial issues in Heideggerâs philosophy is his claim that western philosophy tradition has overlooked the issue of Being. Heideggerâs attempt is to reveal the origins of this negligence by means of destruction. However, it seems that through such claim Heidegger aims to destroy and disvalue this tradition. In addition to defining and explaining destruction, our purpose in this article is to show that Heideggerâs goal is not to destroy the tradition of philosophy but the term destruction refers to a process which is a step in Heideggerâs phenomenology by means of which one can conceive and perceive Being better because only through such destruction ontology can fully assure itself in a phenomenological way of the genuine character of its concepts. The necessity of doing destruction in Heideggerâs thought has also been discussed and his persistence on it has been shown in two of his works, one belongs to early and another to later Heidegger.