"But how does it come about that while the ‘I think’ gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, he cannot exploit it ontologically, and has to fal...
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
~ Martin Heidegger ~
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Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
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"Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality' is to be sought higher ...
"The ‘I’ is a bare consciousness, accompanying all concepts. In the ‘I’, ‘nothing more is represented than a transcendental subject of thoughts’. ‘Cons...
"Ontically, of course, Dasein is not only close to us―even that which is closest: we *are* it, each of us, we ourselves. In spite of this, or rather fo...
"Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological propositions are Temporal propositions. It is only b...
"We assert now that Being is the proper and sole theme of philosophy. This is not our own invention; it is a way of putting the theme which comes to li...
"On the other hand, it is also characteristic of the state of philosophical inquiry today and has been for a long time that, while there has been exten...
"The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of Being, and this requires us to *work out the meth...
"Curiosity is everywhere and nowhere. This mode of Being-in-the-world reveals a new kind of Being of everyday Dasein―a kind in which Dasein is constant...
"Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view of the way in which these phenomeno...
"Thus with the question of the Being of truth and the necessity of presupposing it, just as with the question of the essence of knowledge, an 'ideal su...
"To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our ‘natural’ point of departure Dasein’s everyday interpretation of the Self. In *saying* “*I*,...
"What is the motive for this ‘fugitive’ way of saying “I”? It is motivated by Dasein’s falling; for as falling, it *flees* in the face of itself into t...
"Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that Reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate adversary of thinking.
"In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being in general),...