Being and Time: Division II

is a reinterpretation of everyday existence in terms of temporality.

Part One, Division II will reintepret everyday existence in terms of “temporality (38/17). Recall that Being and Time has a "spiral" structure: Heidegger keeps reinterpreting the phenomena in order to get a deeper understanding of them. Here he claims that temporality is the "meaning" of Dasein's Being. In other words, temporality is the key to understanding ourselves as we truly are.

is concerned with topics that are removed from the normal, familiar functions of everydayness; rare moments of revelation in which we confront our own mortality and have the opportunity to make choices "authentically".

The topics Heidegger discusses under the rubric of temporality are removed from the normal, familiar functions of everydayness. Here, he will examine rare moments of revelation in which we confront our own mortality and have the opportunity to make choices "authentically".

is unpublished, but was intended to move from examining Dasein to determining the meaning of Being as a whole, and thereby show that time is the key to understanding not only our own Being, but Being in general.

Part One, Division III was never published. This division was to take the crucial step from examining Dasein to determining the meaning of Being as a whole. Here, Heidegger wanted to show that time is the key to understanding not only our own Being, but Being in general. In other words, we can understand what it is to be only in terms of temporality.

Part Two was to "destroy" traditional ontology. The term "destruction" sounds rather crude, when in fact Heidegger intends to carry out a very meticulous analysis and criticism.

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being and time: division II