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Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

Understanding of being is itself a determination of being of Da-sein.

Martin Heidegger

Determination, Understanding

Nevertheless, the ultimate business of philosophy is to preserve the force of the most elemental words in which Dasein expresses itself, and to keep the common understanding from levelling them off to that unintelligibility which functions in turn as a source of pseudo-problems.

Martin Heidegger

Philosophy, Understanding, Pseudo

"Being and Time". Book by Martin Heidegger, translated by Macquarrie and Robinson, 1962.

The average, vague understanding of being can be permeated by traditional theories and opinions about being in such a way that these theories, as the sources of the prevailing understanding, remain hidden.

Martin Heidegger

Average, Understanding, Way

Martin Heidegger, Joan Stambaugh, Dennis J. Schmidt (2010). “Being and Time”, p.5, SUNY Press