Eugen Fink

Eugen Fink
Eugen Fink, aged 23, 1929
Born	11 December 1905 Konstanz, German Empire
Died	25 July 1975 Freiburg im Breisgau, West Germany

Eugen Fink (11 December 1905 – 25 July 1975) was a German philosopher.

Fink was born in 1905 as the son of a government official in Germany. He spent his first school years with an uncle who was a Catholic priest. Fink attended a grammar school in Konstanz where he succeeded with his extraordinary memory. After his graduation exam in 1925, he studied philosophy, history, German language and economics, initially at Münster and Berlin and then in Freiburg with Edmund Husserl.

As Husserl's assistant, he was a representative of phenomenological idealism and later a follower of Martin Heidegger. He approached the problem of Being as a manifestation of the cosmic movement with Man being a participant in this movement. Fink called the philosophical problems pre-questions, that will lead to the true philosophy by the way of an ontological practice.