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Being before time? Heidegger on original time, ontological independence, and beingless entities
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Keiling, Tobias (2023) Being before time? Heidegger on original time, ontological independence, and beingless entities. Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, 13 . pp. 199-233. ISSN 2165-3275.
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Abstract
In the recently published manuscript “The Argument against Need” (ca. 1963), Heidegger discusses the notion of being-in-itself (Ansichsein) with regard to entities that predate the existence of knowers. Section 1 introduces the problem of so-called “ancestral facts,” which Meillassoux and Boghossian have used to argue for a specific form of realism. Sections 2 identifies a specific understanding of time as the basis for their argument. Sections 3–4 show how Heidegger rejects this account of time. Section 5 describes the general form of ontologies that deny entity independence (dependence ontology). Section 6 turns to Heidegger’s account of a resistance to ontological sense-making in what he calls “beingless” (seinlos) entities. Discussing work by Haugeland and Wrathall, I conclude in section 7 that Heidegger’s response to the “argument against need” is to reject the idea of unidirectional dependence in favor of a triadic interdependence between being, entities, and us.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > B Philosophy (General) B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BD Speculative Philosophy |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Philosophy | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Time -- Philosophy, Knowledge, Theory of | ||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual | ||||||
Publisher: | Heidegger Circle | ||||||
ISSN: | 2165-3275 | ||||||
Official Date: | 2023 | ||||||
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Volume: | 13 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 199-233 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Free Access (unspecified licence, 'bronze OA') | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 22 March 2024 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 22 March 2024 | ||||||
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