Being and Time philosophy, and Heidegger's achievements in the work have been compared to those of Immanuel Kant in the "Critique of Pure Reason" (1781) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in "The Phenomenology of Spirit" (1807) and "Science of Logic" (1812–1816). The work influenced philosophical treatises such as Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" (1943). "Sein und Zeit" was first translated into English in 1962. According to Heidegger's statement in "Being and Time", the work was made possible by his study of Husserl's "Logical Investigations" (1900-1901). "Being and Time" was originally intended to consist of two major parts, each part consisting of three divisions.
Being work of such influential theorists as W. V. O. Quine, to name one of many. One of the most fundamental questions that continues to exercise philosophers is posed by William James: "How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge." The deficit of such a bridge was first encountered in history by the Pre-Socratic philosophers during the process of evolving a classification of all beings (noun). Aristotle, who wrote after the Pre-Socratics, applies the term category (perhaps not originally)