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When one of his stu­dents dared to ask Mar­tin Hei­deg­ger if he could tell him some­thing about the life of Aris­to­tle, Hei­deg­ger mock­ingly answered: ”Aris­to­tle was born, he worked, he died.” This denial to acknowl­edge the rel­e­vance of biog­ra­phy for phi­los­o­phy is ironic to say the least. There are hardly any philoso­phers whose works were as notice­ably influ­enced by per­sonal events as his own. More­over, this rejec­tion of biog­ra­phy is incon­sis­tent with other aspects of his philosophy.