Posted by Daniel on October 10, 19103 at 00:10:50:

Ive just started reading Heidigger, at 'Time and Being'. What I read usually isn't so difficult, but I am happy to find that I am getting this in some ways, especially after hearing that Heidigger is especially difficult. I am follwing it more or less at least 15 pages in so far, but in going back to the beginning, something needs clarification. On page three, my translation says ,"This lecture hall is. This lecture hall is illuminated. We recognize the illuminated lecture hall at once and with no reservations as something that is. But where in the whole lecture hall do we find the "is"? Nowhere among things do we find Being." Im thinking that he posits Being somewhere and so it must be not-found among the temporal, but Im not sure where. Because if he doesn't, then the "is" is just in the presence of the lecture hall. That would be a 'being'. I think this understanding this example would do much to reveal the problem with Being as presence. Im trying to experience what that "is" is. Am I making any sense?

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