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In the left margin:
Are these, too, “modes of being”?
7.5-7 7.5-8 26.26-29 5.25-27
Text in SZ:
“Is the starting point optional, or does some particular entity have priority when
we come to work out the question of being?”
Husserl underlines:
“priority”
In the right margin:
In an eidetically universal question, can an instance have priority? Is that not
precisely excluded?
7.15-26 7.15-27 26.36S27.9 5.35S6.9
In the left margin Husserl outs a bracket next to the following sentences. His next four notes
border on and/or refer to it.
Text in SZ:
“Looking at, understanding, conceptualizing, choosing, getting access to S these
are constitutive comportments of questioning and thus are modes of being of a
particular entity, the entity that we ourselves, the questioners, always are.
Therefore, working out the question of being means: clarifying an entity S the
questioner S in his or her being. Asking this question is a certain entity’s very
mode of being, and it is determined by what it asks about: being. This entity that
we ourselves always are and that, among other things, has questioning as a
possibility of being, we term “Dasein.” Asking the question about the meaning of
being in an explicit and clear fashion requires a prior, adequate explanation of an
entity (Dasein) with regard to its being.”
Husserl’s first note:
In the left margin, referring to the entire passage, in cursive:
Questioning as a mode of being
Husserl’s second note:
In the right margin, next to the first sentence above:
N.B.
Husserl’s third note:
In the right margin, next to “Dasein,” In cursive:
Dasein
Husserl’s fourth note:
In the bottom margin, SZ-1 7:
Dasein’s modes of being S its modes of comportment? But this “Dasein,” which is
in being [dieses seiende “Dasein”], has modes of comportment as its what-