The first level of forgottenness occurs with the initial Greek presumption of defining being in regard to time, without simultaneously formulating the question of being.

The first level of forgottenness occurs with the initial Greek presumption of defining being in regard to time, without simultaneously formulating the question of being.

In a discussion of Paul Natorp’s objections to phenomenology, Heidegger transforms Husserl’s principle of all principles—that is, the primacy of originary giving and so of intuition—into a nontheoretical and hermeneutic principle, that is, the primacy of understanding.

present—that is, as a “time-word” (Zeitwort)—suggested that the possibility of its understanding and its expression were interwoven. Thus, by projecting being upon the backdrop of time, it simultaneously

This transformation is the hermeneutic “breakthrough” in phenomenology. Philosophy becomes a distinct possibility of life itself.

This environmental experience is the condition of possibility of the neo-Kantian experience of pure givenness, which is nonobjective and impersonal.

Frank Schalow

Life is meaningful and expresses itself in and through the individual’s experiences and self-understanding.