Tag: Möglichsein

The ontological determination of Dasein—that is, of the being that we ourselves in each case are—is primarily possibility. “Dasein,” Heidegger writes, “is not something present at hand that in addition has (or possesses) the ability to do something; rather, it is primarily being-possible (Möglichsein), Dasein is in each case what it can be and how…

On the intrinsic belonging of possibility to the essence not merely of the animal, but of the living being in general, see in particular the 1929-30 course Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik: Welt—Endlichkeit—Einsamkeit. Gesamtausgabe Bd. 29/30. (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1983). Translated by William McNeill & Nicholas Walker as The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude (Bloomington:…