In "Off the beaten track", the German philosopher Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889, Mebkirch-May 26, 1976, Freiburg) highlights the importance of the subject, the subjectivity of each man as the foundation of freedom, and situates Descartes as the discoverer of that fundament. He wrote:

«The task of metaphysics Descartes became the following: create the metaphysical foundation for human liberation in favor of freedom and self-determination for sure of herself. (...)

«The fundamentum, said the foundation of freedom, which underlies its base, the subjectum, so something must be right that meets the aforementioned requirements. "(Martin Heidegger, La imagen en la era del mundo, in Caminos de Bosque, pag. 87, Spanish edition).

And Heidegger continues:

"In Greek sophistry any subjectivism is impossible because it can never be the man subjectum. Never can get to be so because here being is the presence and truth is unblinding ".

"In unblinding happens Fantasy, to reach appearing the present  such as it is to man who is, in turn, present to what appears. Nevertheless, as the representative subject, man fancies, I mean, he moves in the imaginary, in the measure that his ability to representation imagine being like that objective within the world as an image. "(Martin Heidegger, La epoca en la  imagen del mundo, in Caminos de Bosque, pag. 88, Alianza Editorial, Madrid, the emphasis in bold is my own).

This is a serious misconception of Heidegger. In Greek sophistry, subjectivism did not exist? Obviously there existed and Plato had already it in some extent. Incidentally, the fantasy is not only a phenomenon of collective human species: it has a shaft singular individual, different from person to person and it is only the subjectivism. The great philosophical revolution of the transfer of the center of gravity of the knowledge of the outside world to the thinking subject, is already made by the Sophists, Gorgias in particular, if we look at what Sextus Empiricus wrote about this in "Adversus Mathematicos, 65 ':

"In the book entitled 'From Non-Being, or Nature" Gorgias defined three principles namely: first, that nothing exists, second, if there is something is unknowable, and third, if it were knowable, could not be communicated or disclosed. "(Quote from Sextus Empiricus in Pinharanda Gomes, Pre-Socratic Greek Philosophy, pag.273, Guimarães Editors, Portugal; highlighting in bold is my own) ..

The skepticism held by Descartes in the seventeenth century has been used by Gorgias. And the subjectivism of Gorgias is clear: if something is known, can not be communicated or disclosed, is within the consciousness of a single subject.
Heidegger thought confusedly: he called subjectivism, current epistemological which bifurcates into realistic or idealistic subjectivism, the subjective idealism of Descartes that reduces the world to an imaginary contents of consciousness solipsistic ("Cogito, ergo sum").

And the multitude of Heideggerian, whether or not academics, can´t finds these errors of the master, because the University does not think globally or detailed, is a counterrevolutionary institution of installed persons, PhD, people who arrogates have the 'knowledge". In fact, each doctoral is a specialization in a tiny area of philosophical knowledge and is an inductive fallacy calling "doctor of philosophy" to someone who makes doctorate work based on one or some books of an author like Martin Heidegger, Jean Paul Sartre, Peter Singer or any other . A "doctor" in utilitarian ethics or Bertrand Russel is not a doctor in Aristotle or Plato or Hegel and many hundreds of philosophers devoted to various themes and philosophy ...

Heidegger did not have a perfect thought, although he was better than the most of philosophers. And universities or chairs seem to be the Vatican, in its theocratic bow: for them, Heidegger is the Pope of phenomenology, the direct representative of the goddess of Philosophy in Earth. Not so. 'Being and Time' is a book with many confusions, with enough obscure language. Heidegger  did not understand well the ontognosiology of Kant, like 99% of universitary professors, as shown in this blog, in the article "The equivocation of Heidegger to interpret ontognosiology of Kant" in January 9, 2010.

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