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On Being in Hegel and Heidegger

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2017

Andrew Haas
Andrew Haas*
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Higher School of Economics, Moscowahaas@hse.ru
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Abstract

What is being? This is, from the Greeks to Hegel (according to Heidegger), the guiding question of ontology and the history of philosophy as metaphysics. And the answer is presence: ‘being’ means ‘being present’, ‘presencing’; ‘to be’ means ‘to be present’. By clarifying the limit of this philosophy of presence, however, it is possible to go beyond it, to a thinking of being as presence and absence—for both coming-to-presence and going-out-into-absence are ways in which beings are, and being happens. And yet, are presence and absence the only ways to think being? On the contrary—there is a third. From the Greeks (through Hegel) to Heidegger, the being that fails to come to presence, but also does not simply remain in absence—this is what is merely implied, an implication. But then what does it mean to think being as implied? Being as implying? As an implication?

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Hegel Bulletin , Volume 38 , Special Issue 1: Hegel and Phenomenology , May 2017 , pp. 150 - 170
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