ABSTRACT
As a philosophical problem, schematism has been well known as a Kantian issue. This paper suggests that Heidegger inherited Kantian schematism and has resolved to overhaul it to adapt it to his own doctrine. By reviewing the notion of time since Newton, by showing the terminological and philosophical kinship between Heidegger with Kant, and by reproducing a chart conceived some thirty years ago by Otto Pöggeler, this paper further argues that, unlike the Kantian schematism, which explains how categories are applicable to empirical nature, Heidegger expounded in his magnum opus Sein und Zeit an implicit “schematism of life,” which accounts for how Dasein as original time unfolds itself through 3 × 2 = 6 ecstatical modi to constitute the life world of individual human Dasein. It is from this new angle that a host of conceptual and interpretative issues are raised for critical reflection and reappraisal.
