Monday, December 14, 2015

Species-Being and Being

Detachment of the Individual from the Species has been accomplished in a variety of ways over the centuries: via the traditional theological concept of the incorporeal Soul; by Philosophical surrogates for the Soul, e. g. Leibniz' Monad and Kant's Noumenon; and by Smith's Egoism.  Now, in apparent opposition to these Individuations is Heidegger's re-appropriation by Being from fallenness into Beings, a plightwhich mirrors the structure of Marx's concept of alienation from Species-Being, and inverts it into a mode of Nihilism.  However, there is one weakness in Heidegger's project that has no Marxist correlate: an abstraction of Being from its origin as the Husserlian Phenomenologist functioning in 'the Life-World'.  Rather, the correlate of that abstraction is Heidegger's eradication of any association with his Jewish mentor.  So, re-grounding this presumed 'Fundamental Ontology' in concrete activity exposes all of its elements, including its concept of 'individual beings', as a possible product of aliention from Species-Being.

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