ABSTRACT

Heidegger concludes his phenomenological investigation of the human way of being by making it absolutely clear that his uncovering of temporality as its basis is both an end and a beginning. It is an end in that it provides the most fundamental understanding that he has been able to develop of the nature of human existence. Over five hundred closely argued pages, he has argued that Dasein is essentially worldly, that this worldliness is founded upon the tripartite care-structure, and that this care-structure is itself founded upon the threefold ecstatic temporalizing of temporality. But this analysis of Dasein’s conditionedness or finitude was never an end

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fundamental question of the meaning of Being in general; and Being and Time ends by re-posing that question.