Tension between the Transcendens Pure and Simple and the Most Radical Individuation:Dilemmas in the Question of Being in Being and Time
In Being and Time Heidegger explores the meaning of Being and presents a hermeneutical cycle between Being as the transcendens pure and simple and Dasein as the most radical Individuation.This cycle involves two steps:first,Dasein is determined on the basis of Being,and then the meaning of Being is determined on the basis of Dasein.However,the mutual determination between Being as the transcendens pure and simple and Dasein as the most radical Individuation encounters fundamental difficulties.This paper aims to disclose these challenges by drawing on Hegel's and Husserl's philosophies.It highlights how the concept of Being which determines Dasein incorporates conflicting meanings of Being,one indeterminate and the other determinate.Moreover,Dasein,as the most radical Individuation,is incapable of determining Being as the transcendens pure and simple as Heidegger proposes.Heidegger's later marginal notes on Being and Time indicate his clear understanding and explicit reflection on the aforementioned dilemmas.