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Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of entities; yet it pertains to every entity. Its 'universality' is to be sought higher ...more

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Because they are assertions about Being in the light of time properly understood, all ontological propositions are Temporal propositions. It is only b...more

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On the other hand, it is also characteristic of the state of philosophical inquiry today and has been for a long time that, while there has been exten...more

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The *second task* consists in distinguishing the mode of knowing operative in ontology as science of Being, and this requires us to *work out the meth...more

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Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view of the way in which these phenomeno...more

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As a method however, the *method of ontology* is nothing but the sequence of the steps involved in the approach to Being as such and the elaboration o...more

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But what is great can only begin great.

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And so man, as existing transcendence abounding in and surpassing toward possibilities, is a creature of distance. Only through the primordial distanc...more