In Progress (Preliminary Draft): Being, Metaphysics and Ontology in Being and Time Heideggers fundamental project in Being and Time is grounding Being, metaphysically and ontologically, in actuality, rather than possibility. Possibility is unseen. Actuality is proven. For example, consider the actuality of a proposition (p) in time (t), There is a cup or there is a point. Actuality of these propositions is provable in time. The time has come when Metaphysics and Ontology can no longer worship at the altar of the unseen - Jupiter It seems Heideggers metaphysical and ontological account of Being in Being and Time is a break with Hegels characterization of Being as space-time unity. Hegels metaphysical and ontological characterization of time is an account of Being as an unseen possibility, which is not yet. Hegel diametrically opposes Being and Time. Being was described as a point in space, space designating actuality; time was described as not a point in space, time designating possibility. In that respect, Hegels account of Being frames Being as something that is and is not yet, that is, it is an account in which Being is Becoming; but, for Heidegger, this account of Being is not actuality, only possibility. With that in mind, consider Heideggers account of Dasein concerning its (in)authenticity and falling. Falling...which is at the same time alienating... closes off from Dasein its authenticity and possibility even if only the possibility of genuinely foundering (222). Dasein, in its everydayness, is falling, that is, inauthentically Being, which leads me to question, is Heideggers account of in(authenticity) neutral and is it consistent with the fundamental metaphysical and ontological project of Being and Time?
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