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

determinations, just like nature’s “modes of comportment” S its modes of
comporting itself in movement and rest [and], under certain circumstances, in
combination and fragmentation; its modes of exercising and experiencing
causality, properties that are determinations of nature.
7.27-30 7.28-31 27.10-12 6.10-13
Text in SZ:
“But does not such an undertaking devolve into an obvious circle? To
need to define an entity beforehand in its being, and then, on that basis, to seek to
pose the question about being for the first time S what is this if not going in a
circle?”
In the right margin, in cursive:
circle
8.7-11 8.7-10 27.28S28.3 6.29-32
Text in SZ:
“This guiding activity of taking-a-look at being arises from the average
understanding of being in which we always already operate and which in the end
belongs to the essential structure of Dasein itself.”
Husserl underlines:
“taking-a-look” and “average understanding of being”
In the left margin:
That is obvious, but the taking-a-look does not belong to the entity as its
determination.
§ 3
The Ontological Priority of the Question of Being
9.3-6 9.3-6 29.10-12 7.25-28
Text in SZ:
“Does [the question of being] simply remain (or is it at all) merely a matter of
soaring speculation about the most general of generalities S or it is, at one and the
same time, the most basic and most concrete question?”
Husserl underlines:
“most concrete”
In the right margin:
Yes, as a transcendental-phenomenological question about the constitutive
meaning of being