Will and Individuation

Self-individuation deliberately effects secession from the world. However, while Heidegger presumes that his 'Being-towards-Death' produces self-individuation, what it actually accomplishes is an interiorization of one's involvements with the world. It, thus, entails, like the Cartesian phenomenalism that it continues, a nihilation of any external realm. The fundamental flaw of this approach is that self-individuation requires not interiorization, but exteriorization, i. e. Will. For, individuation is a two-place relation, i. e. it is only in the process of extending oneself towards others in the recognition of their individuality that one distinguishes oneself from them.