Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences Symposion. Theoretical and Applied Inquiries in Philosophy and Social Sciences
Rajesh Sampath
ABSTRACT: This article is Part One of a two-article series. This first article introduces a twofold hypothesis regarding the incompletion of Division Two of Heidegger’s Being and Time and the possibility of constructing anew its missing Division Three. The focus will be a close reading of section 81 of Chapter VI of Division Two. The first part of the hypothesis is that a non-linear, non-circular, and non-rectilinear four-dimensional temporalization is buried beneath Heidegger’s articulations of the ‘equiprimordial, ecstatic, finite, unified, authentic, temporalizing of temporality’ (Heidegger 1962, 377-380), which derives both the ‘endless, infinite time of arising and passing away’ of now points in and as ongoing linear time (Heidegger 1962, 379); and that this linear time consists of past (no longer now), present (now), and future (yet to be now), in which the ‘ready-to-hand arises and passes away’ (Heidegger 1962, 379). The second part of the hypothesis asserts that in order to excavate this four-dimensional temporalization, we must un-do Heidegger’s treatment of Plato and Aristotle, particularly in section 81, which is the penultimate chapter before he confronts Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit in section 82. We argue that this is necessary in order to frame a comprehensive analysis of how Heidegger treats Hegel at the end of Being and Time in order to go beyond Being and Time itself.
