Marginalia to Being and Time - Religious Studies at Stanford ...

INTRODUCTION
EXPOSITION OF THE QUESTION OF THE MEANING OF BEING
CHAPTER ONE
Necessity, Structure, and Priority
of the Question of Being
§ 1
The Necessity of an Explicit Retrieval
of the Question of Being
2.11-14 2.12-13 21.13 1.8-9
Text in SZ:
“[The question of being] provided a stimulus for the investigations of Plato and
Aristotle, only to subside from then on as a theme for actual research.”
Husserl underlines:
“to subside from then on”
In the left margin:
And phenomenology?
3.1-38 3.9-37 22.12S25.5 2.12-36
Husserl’s next two notes are found one after the other (but separated) in the bottom margin of
SZ-1 p. 3. The paragraph which these notes follow and to which they refer (SZ-1 3.1-38 = SZ-15
3.9-37 = BT-1 22.12S23.5 =BT-2 2.12-36) discusses the fact that, whereas being is the most
universal, its university transcends that of genus and has, rather, the unity of analogy. In that
aforementioned paragraph, Husserl underlines two words:
3.18-20 3.17-18 22.20-21 2.20-21
Text in SZ:
“In the characterization of medieval ontology,