BEING AND TIME

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

Being and Time by Martin Heidegger

Introduction

Martin Heidegger's treatise Being and Time, in seeking to answer the question of the meaning of being, addresses the subject of the self and various problems relating to selfhood as parts of his larger project. While addressing the subject of the self, however, Heidegger has overlooked many relevant considerations, specifically with regards to the way the self interacts with and depends upon its others. The result of this is that Heidegger's understanding of the self throughout Being and Time carries with it both demonstrable inconsistencies and a number of propositions that require further investigation. This study, thus, has sought to exotically explicate Heidegger's understanding of the self as it made manifest throughout Being and Time, to critically pose problems to Heidegger's concept of the self that highlight those places where the self has been left inconsistent or incomplete, and to draw upon both alternate sources and original research so as to augment Heidegger's concept of the self and return a more robust and complete understanding of the self (Heiddeger, 2010).

This study demonstrates that, while Heidegger's concept of the self in Being and Time are fundamentally incomplete and inconsistent at various points in and of itself, it provides an adequate foundation upon which a more complete and consistent understanding of the self and its interactions with its others can be developed. One possible conceptual solution to this problem, a solution that takes its inspiration from various sections of Fyodor Dostoevsky's The Brothers Karamazov, has been proposed below under the name of “universal mutual responsibility.” This solution offers a means by which to preserve Heidegger's existing ontological investigations into the self while supplementing these ontological investigations with those existential considerations Heidegger himself left unexplored. These considerations and their various implications have been read back and reinserted into the text, thus solidifying the concept of universal mutual responsibility as a viable advancement upon Heidegger's existing concept of the self within Being and Time.

Thesis Statement

There is no access to being other than via beings themselves—hence pursuing the question of being inevitably means asking about a being with regard to its being.

Discussion

Why does Heidegger hold that "not-being-at-home" is more primordial than the familiar modes of being-in-the-world?

The Existential Analysis

Heidegger (being who will answer the question of the meaning of being) exists and is the only one there. The term "exist" is here to hear in its technical sense. The existence is the special relationship with qu'entretient Heidegger's being, because even if Heidegger has the same texture as any other being that it is brought to meet him, it is evident that being a badge. (In this regard, in Sein und Zeit, there is the famous phrase "the essence of Heidegger lies in its existence," a phrase meaning that Heidegger is a badge which is in its being, it is in this being this being that Heidegger is that being forced to open (the former of existence), to support his being. This famous phrase has been misinterpreted by existentialists as Sartre , who ...