He distinguishes between the “ready-to-hand,” as our primary means of encountering the world, and “present-at-hand” objects or “things.” Chapter 3 deals with what Heidegger calls the world of “equipment,” that world with which human beings are for the most part engaged. In Chapters 1 and 2 of Division 1, he provides more detail regarding the nature of Dasein and how his study of it differs from other ways of understanding human being. He also discusses the phenomenological method he will employ for this task.

In the introduction, Heidegger outlines the problem of “Being” and why an investigation into human being, or “Dasein,” is key to addressing this problem.

Two chapters are sometimes treated jointly in one analysis section, while Chapter 6 of Division 1 is dealt with only indirectly, as it treats issues already touched on or nonessential to the main argument. This guide is composed of 10 analysis sections that broadly map onto the chapters in the text. Through these sections, Heidegger develops an analysis of human being, its different aspects, and the possibilities therein for authentic or inauthentic existence. The chapters are divided into numbered sections, of which there are 83. Second, he aims to show how readers, through this radical re-orientation, can reclaim their true selves and achieve what he calls “authenticity.”īeing and Time is composed of an introduction of two chapters, and two “divisions,” each containing six chapters. First, he hopes to revolutionize our understanding of philosophy and the ordinary world. With this approach, he hopes to achieve two things. The familiar world of the individual-their work, moods, and social life-something typically ignored by philosophy, is the kernel of Heidegger’s concern. He does so not through abstract reason but by appeal to the immediate and everyday experiences of the reader.

Heidegger seeks to re-evaluate a question he believes has been overlooked by the philosophical tradition: that of “Being,” or the fundamental structure of all existence.

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