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Choosing a Hero: Heidegger’s Conception of Authentic Life in Relation to Early Christianity Dermot Moran 1. The Ur-phenomenon of Life On the 21st of January, 1919 Martin Heidegger officially became a paid assistant to Edmund Husserl, who had held the Chair in Freiburg since 19 16.1 On January 25th , the “War Emergency Semester” (Kriegnotsemester) commenced and Heidegger embarked on his first lecture course, ‘The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of Worldview’, in which he explored his own understanding of the true method of philosophy and its relation to phenomenology (GA56/57). In subsequent Freiburg lecture courses from 1919 to 1923, Heidegger made strenuous attempts to come to terms with, and gain a critical perspective on the current philosophical scene: neo-Kantian philosophy (specifically Rickert, Natorp, Windelband, and Lask), phenomenology (Husserl, Scheler), hermeneutics and life-philosophy (Dilthey, Simmel). It is noteworthy that no matter what was the announced course title, Heidegger always used the occasion to think deeply about the nature of philosophy and more specifically to interrogate the meaning and value of phenomenology as a mode of approach to the issues (and, in passing, treated issues such as the nature of philosophy as a science, the meaning of ‘worldview’, the ‘externalities’ of current study of philosophy in the university, and so on). Heidegger was frustrated by the fact that academic philosophy was not doing justice to concrete, individual life in the world, to individual life as it is spread out in history. Academic philosophy offered no cure to the anxieties of life. In a 1923 lecture course, for instance, Heidegger refers to Van Gogh, who “drew the pictures in his paintings from the depths of his heart and sou