Heideggerian ruminations on being and presence
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2019-05-20
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Dahlstrom, Daniel O.
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Daniel Dahlstrom. 2019. "Heideggerian Ruminations on being and presence." Gatherings, Volume 19, pp. 155-57, 168-69.
Abstract
As Aristotle puts it, ‘being’ (used interchangeably with ‘existence’ here) is said in many
ways, including many opposing ways. Potentialities exist precisely as potentialities for
specific actualities but the potentialities and the respective actualities for which they are
potentialities are not identical to one another, even though they are determinable only in
terms of one another (e.g., the acorn and the mature oak, the glass before and after
shattering). In this sense being exceeds the exclusive disjunction of potentialities and their
respective actualities.