ABSTRACT
At the beginning of Sein und Zeit, Heidegger famously asked the question of being: what is it to be?1 The question was to exercise him, in one way or another, for the rest of his philosophical life. He came to the conclusion that, because of a certain aporia, the question could not, in fact, be answered. One cannot say what being is. Being shows itself, that is, beings show their being, and the job of the thinker is to open people’s eyes to see this showing.2
