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

11.17-19 11.18-20 31.25-27 9.27-31
Text in SZ:
“[The question of being aims at the] condition for the possibility of those very
ontologies which are situated prior to the ontic sciences and which found them.”
In the right margin:
Does that mean a priori sciences? Yes, cf. 13. 40
11.19-24 11.20-24 31.27-30 9.31-34
Text in SZ, all italicized in the original:
“All ontology, no matter how rich and firmly compacted a system of categories it
has at its disposal, remains basically blind to and a perversion of its ownmost aim,
until it adequately clarifies the meaning of being and understands this clarification
as its fundamental task.”
Husserl brackets the above sentence with a vertical line in the left margin. In the text he
underlines:
“All ontology” and “until it adequately clarifies the meaning of being”
In the left margin:
This would be a reproduction of my doctrine, if “clarified” meant constitutivelyphenomenologically
clarified.
§ 4
The Ontic Priority of the Question of Being
11.34-36 11.34-36 32.4-6 10.1-3
Text in SZ:
“The sciences, as ways that people act, have this entity’s (the human being’s) type
of being. We denote this entity by the term