GA20:425-427 – Gänze des Daseins – wholeness of Dasein

Kisiel

Reading off the genuine totality of being requires that the entity as a whole be given. To the extent that care became manifest as the being of this entity, this means that the whole is in principle never given, and the purported reading is in principle impossible. In regard to Dasein itself and our previous elaboration, we have obtained full clarity on the following points: The being of this entity is care; among other things, care means being out for something; Dasein’s concern includes a concern for its own being. As being out for something, it is out for what it still is not. As care, Dasein is essentially underway towards something; in caring it is toward itself as that which it still is not. Its own sense of being is to always have something before itself which it still is not, which is still outstanding. That something is always still outstanding means that the being of Dasein as care, insofar as it is, is always incomplete, it still lacks something so long as it is.

But when Dasein is complete, a conclusion which is called death, then Dasein is indeed at an end, nothing more is outstanding for it as an entity, but with this ‘nothing more outstanding’ for it, it is also no longer Dasein. Upon reaching its wholeness and precisely in it, it becomes no-longer-Dasein. Its wholeness makes it vanish. Accordingly, Dasein as a whole in principle can never be forced into prepossession. But even if that were in some way possible, this only means again, strictly speaking, that no use could be made of this prepossession. For we must adhere to the determination of Dasein given earlier, that in essence it is in each instance mine. This character—Dasein is mine at the time—is ineradicable in it. And it is only because Dasein in essence is in each instance my own that I can lose myself in the Anyone. When Dasein reaches wholeness in death, then it can no longer be experienced by me as mine. More accurately, in totality understanding selffinding is no longer possible. For the entity which was supposed to find itself when wholeness was reached in fact no longer is precisely because of wholeness. But first, entirely apart from whether it makes any sense at all to maintain the possibility that in dying Dasein might have an opportunity for a phenomenological investigation of its being, it would in fact always have to wait until it was completely at the end in order to grasp this wholeness. This points to an impossibility in principle to find oneself in the wholeness of Dasein, to experience it and thereupon to extricate the totality of this being from it. It should of course be noted that this impossibility is not grounded in the famed irrationality of lived experiences and their structures, nor in the limitation and insecurity of our cognitive faculty, nor in the inappropriateness of the moment of dying for phenomenological investigations. Rather, this impossibility is anchored solely in the kind of being of this very entity. If reaching wholeness means no-longer-being, a loss of any possible disposition, must we then forgo the possibility of exhibiting the corresponding totality and an adequate characterization of the being of Dasein on the basis of its own kind of being? (p. 308-309)

Aspiunza

Original

  1. unterwegs zu etwas: unterwegs es una expresión que a veces se traduce por «de camino a…», lo que vendría a ser un calco. Significa «(estar) fuera, de viaje, de paso para…». (N. del T.)[↩]
  2. Aquí creo que ayudaría entender el vocablo literalmente en cuanto preocuparse; es decir, «preocupándose, el Dasein es…». (N. del T.)[↩]
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Heidegger – Fenomenologia e Hermenêutica

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