Man, language and existence: Five queries about Heidegger's view of language

The late German philosopher Heidegger was well-known for his criticism on the longstanding tradition of formalism and rationalism represented by Plato and Aristotle from the perspectives of existentialism, phenomenology and hermeneutics, and his argument that language directs man. All this has been highly recognized by modern western philosophers. However, several points of his view of language need further clarification and discussion, such as inexplicitness of his writing style, word's archaeological meaning as his principle of argument, the relation between language and science/technology, the meaning of "God" in the schema of "heaven, land, God, man", and the unity of natural language and human language. The present writer attempts to answer some of the questions and expresses his own views. Adapted from the source document