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Ontological Pluralism and the Being and Time Project

Denis McManus
- 01 Oct 2013 - 
- Vol. 51, Iss: 4, pp 651-673
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In this paper, the unity of the concept of being in general, the integrity of the very notion of Dasein, and the possibility of a perspective from which the philosopher can do her work are identified.
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This paper identifies a problem which the project that Heidegger set himself in Being and Time aimed to solve. The problem concerns the unity of the concept of “Being in general,” the integrity of the very notion of “Dasein,” and the possibility of a perspective from which the philosopher can do her work. Heidegger’s own attempt to solve this problem turns on the claim that time is “the possible horizon for any understanding whatsoever of Being” (Sein und Zeit 1), time supposedly thereby ‘mak[ing] ontology possible” (Basic Problems of Phenomenology 228). I elucidate the problem by discussing how it emerges also in Russell (in reflecting on types) and Aristotle (in discussing whether Being is 'said in many ways'), by identifying challenges that attempted solutions to it face, and by juxtaposing the issues it raises with ones faced by McDaniel’s and Turner’s recent attempts to defend what they call “ontological pluralism”.

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Beyond the Limits of Thought

George Matthews
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Being and Time

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an interpretation of Dasein in terms of temporality, and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon for the Question of Being.
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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

TL;DR: The Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus as discussed by the authors was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) published during his lifetime, and it immediately convinced many of its readers and captured the imagination of all.
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Sein und Zeit

TL;DR: Selten hat in den neueren Jahrhunderten ein philosophischer Erstling so durchgeschlagen und einen so unverruckbaren Platz unter den >grossen< Buchern errungen wie Heideggers "Sein und Zeit", das Buch eines Dreissigers" Hans Georg Gadamer in DIE ZEIT Nr 47 vom 19111982.
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Margins of philosophy

TL;DR: In this densely imbricated volume Derrida pursues his devoted, relentless dismantling of the philosophical tradition, the tradition of Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger each dealt with in one or more of the essays.
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Introduction to Metaphysics

TL;DR: In this paper, a revised and expanded translation of one of Heidegger's most important works is presented, which includes an afterword by Petra Jaeger, editor of the German text.