ABSTRACT
In Being and Time, the central issue of the entire work is to show that, for a human being, for Dasein, 'to be' is always 'to be temporal', since temporality makes up the primordial meaning of Dasein's Being. From Martin Heidegger's analysis of human existence it soon becomes clear that, in order to develop a deeper understanding of Being. Heidegger thus proposed that Being could be explored and understood only in relation to, or in terms of, time. It should be emphasized that his primary concern is not with 'time', as denoted by a noun, which gives the impression that time is some kind of substance such as 'clock-time'. Aristotle's cosmic view of time viewed it as the time of the natural world. Influenced by the ideas of Henri Bergson and Edmund Husserl, Heidegger thus proposed in 1927 that Dasein's Being is in time and that the ontological meaning of Being is time.
