Ontology--The Hermeneutics of Facticity by Martin Heidegger

Author:Martin Heidegger
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015-04-14T16:00:00+00:00

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1. Fr. 5 (Fr. 3 in the new enumeration) in Diels, Vorsokratiker, Vol. 1 (Berlin, 3d ed., 1912), p. 152.

Chapter Four

Significance as the Character of the World’s Being-Encountered

§21. An analysis of significance (first version, not delivered in the course)

Our description was carried out intentionally with a view to providing an indication of only those modes of the being-encountered of “things” which are found in a certain circumscribed occasion of their being-encountered, one which is, however, for the most part and for most of us something close to us and a given. The as-what and how of their being-encountered can be designated as significance—and this itself interpreted as a category of being. “Significant” means: being, being-there, in the how of a definite signifying and pointing[60]—what this means, that wherein its definiteness consists, and how in all this a being-there announces itself is what now needs to be brought into relief from out of the concrete.

The definiteness of this signifying, which is what initially needs to be explicated, lies in the characteristic of the disclosedness of that which is for a while significant to us at the particular time in question.[61] (Disclosedness—not merely the definiteness of definitions in the realm of knowledge—the latter is a special dimension of sight and as such one which is also still average. Being-interpreted moves around in it.) This disclosedness shows itself in two basic characteristics: (1) the characteristic of availability in advance, (2) the characteristic of the advance appearance of a with-world (i.e., bringing-about-the-appearance of those with us in the world, holding them in this appearance).[62]

1. In the above description,[63] what is being encountered in a “worldly” manner shows itself as being a means to . . . , used to . . . , no longer really suitable for . . . , no longer used to . . . : its being-there is a being-there-for-this. “There-in-order-to-do-this” means: ready-to-hand for being-occupied with . . . , for a tarrying for a while in it from out of which arises this or that looking around for it to do something with it, this or that positioning in relation to. . . . What is there in such being-there-ready-to-hand as such, and there as something well-known and disclosed, is the in-order-to, and this in the mode of being of a definite everyday being-in-such-and-such-a-manner—e.g., in order to have a meal (this alone or with definite others and at different times of the day). Even this definite everydayness and temporality are thus available in advance. Already having been there in such and such a manner and expected to be there again in such and such a manner. Past and future as definite horizons which each define the present—pressing forth into the there[64] from out of the past and future.

(Temporality: there from that time, for, during, for the sake of.

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