Reply to: Re: Introduction to Heidegger- Dasein
Henk van Tuijl wrote:
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>Perhaps Allen's point is in the transition from "being" >(Sein) to "happening" (Geschehen), from being to historizing.
>Is this happening or historizing always the same?
Your introduction of the word "transition" here complicates the matter in an interesting way. One way to understand this is that the transition you speak of is enacted in the fundamental assertion of each Dasein: "I am." In this assertion of our specificity, each of us finds our own possibility for authenticity. ( I adapted all this language basically from p. 6 of " The Concept of Time."
This "transition' is what it means to be historical, that is, in our being historical, in our making time into our own specific " I am," being "happens" to/for Dasein. This transition from being to happening is enacted through Dasein's running ahead of itself, being futural, but of course in being futural, " it comes back to its own past and present." And so Heidegger concludes, " Das Dasein, begriffen in seiner aeusserstem Seinmoeglichkeit, ist die Zeit selbst, nicht in der Zeit." (Dasein, conceived in its most extremepossibility of Being, is time itself, not in time.) (14.
I read the above as totally consonant with your quote from SuZ
>"[If] fate constitutes the primordial historicality of
>Dasein, then history has its essential importance neither
>in what is past, but in that authentic historizing of >existence which arises from Dasein's _future_" (SuZ:386).
Perhaps I'm missing something. I often do.
Allen
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