ABSTRACT
Examined in the light of the structure of mythology, ontology and history appear contiguous. Historiographic recollection or repetition, whatever form it takes, though, throws human existence out of the historical moment and into the depths of enduring temporal structures that categorially constitute paradigmatic cultural and historical patterns. More accurately, historicity serves as the basis for historiographical understanding. The claim that Dasein is historical reveals an ontological privilege. The manner in which Martin Heidegger continued his analysis led to articulating the structural whole of Dasein in terms of temporality. Not temporality in the ordinary sense of occupying moments of time, but temporality from within the inner complexity of the moment that is never disconnected from the past or future. The essential critique at the heart of the historical, for Ernst Troeltsch and Heidegger, unites them in deriving the science of history from the explicit historical nature of human existence.
