a man amidst mankind: back again to dasein

Heidegger’s “Being and Time” explores Dasein and temporality, revealing how human existence is deeply intertwined with time and authenticity.Viktoriya Sus at The Collector

Heidegger’s Project: Reinterpreting Ontology
In Being and Time, Martin Heidegger takes on the immense task of reinterpreting ontology, the branch of philosophy that deals with the nature of being itself.

On the other hand, given this…

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…what are the odds that any mere mortal here on planet Earth would/could claim to reinterpret the ontological nature of being itself?

With or without Nazis?

And what’s next, a philosopher claiming to have reinterpreted the teleological nature of existence itself?

Ah, the concept of existence. In other words, something that can be explored, examined and interpreted up in the philosophical clouds. And, sure, I can certainly accept that this is perhaps the place to start.

But sooner or later the assessments and assumptions accumulated here will need to be connected to human social, political and economic interactions.

Or is this perhaps where philosophers leave all that existential “day to day” stuff up to the anthropologists, sociologists, psychologists and political scientists?

On the other hand, of what practical use is philosophy if the dots are not connected between being itself and our individual interactions? After all, look at what Heidegger embraced himself existentially as an individual.

Sieg Heil?