Sic Semper Tyrannis

It's Impossible

The being of truth stands in a primordial connection with Da-sein*. And only because Da-sein exists as constituted by disclosedness (that is, by understanding) can something like being be understood, only so is an understanding of being possible at all.
-Martin Heidegger Being and Time I.VI

[*“Being there,” or “existence,” if I even understand that. (My notes, not his.)]

And that’s two of the easier sentences.

I’m a little more than halfway through the Heidegger and still not sure I’ve understood one damn word.

posted by Mike @ 3:50 PM