Albert Hofstadter is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of California, Santa Cruz. His translation of Heidegger's Poetry, Language, Thought received a National Book Award.

Translator's Preface

Translator's Introduction

Introduction

1. Exposition and General Division of the theme

2. The concept of philosophy. Philosophy and world-view

3. Philosophy as science of being

4. The four theses about being and the basic problems of phenomenology

5. The character of ontological method. The three basic components of phenomenological method

6. Outline of the course

Part One: Critical Phenomenological Discussion of Some Traditional Theses about Being

Chapter One: Kant's Thesis: Being Is Not a Real Predicate

7. The content of the Kantian thesis

8. Phenomenological analysis of the explanation of the concept of being or of existence given by Kant

9. Demonstration of the need for a more fundamental formulation of the problem of the thesis and of a more radical foundation of this problem

Chapter Two: The Thesis of Medeval Ontology Derived from Aristotle: To the Constitution of the Being of a Being There Belong Essence and Existence

10. The Content of the thesis and its traditional discussion

11. Phenomenological clarification of the problem underlying the second thesis

12. Proof of the inadequate foundation of the traditional treatment of the problem

Chapter Three: The Thesis of Modern Ontology: The Basic Ways of Being Are the Being of Nature (res Extensa) and the Being of Mind (Res Cogitans)

13. Characterization of the ontological distinction between res extensa and res cogitans with the aid of the Kantian formulation of the problem

14. Phenomenological critique of the Kantian solution and demonstration of the need to pose the question in fundamental principle

15. The fundamental problem of the multiplicity of ways of being and of the unity of the concept of being in general

Chapter Four: The Thesis of Logic: Every Being, Regardless of Its Particular Way of Being, Can Be Addressed and Talked About by Means of the "Is". The Being of the Copula

16. Delineation of the ontological problem of the copula with reference to some characteristic arguments in the course of the histroy of logic

17. Being as copula and the phenomenological problem of assertion

18. Assertional truth, the idea of truth in general, and its relation to the concept of being

Part Two:

The Fundamental Ontological Question of the Meaning of Being in General

The Basic Structures and Basic Ways of Being

Chapter One: The Problem of the Ontological Difference

19. Time and temporality

20. temporality [Zeitlichkeit] and Temporality [Temporalitat]

21. Temporality [Temporalitat] and being

22. Being and beings. The ontological difference

Editor's Epilogue

Translator's Appendix: A Note on the Da and the Dasein

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