Volume 57, Issue 1, 2010
Ve službě filosofii Na počest Jiřího Gabriela: In Service of Philosophy. In Honor of Jiří Gabriel
Vladimír Leško
Pages 99-110
Being and Time and Philosophical Unsuccess
The paper raises the question: Could Heidegger have successfully completed his Being and Time as he proclaimed in its first edition? In the author’s view, the fact that the second part of the book remained unwritten was an inevitable consequence of the turn: The question of Being in the second part of Being and Time remained unresolved, therefore Heidegger later focused on of the understanding of Being in Hegel, Leibniz, Heraclitus and Parmenides. The author argues, however, that even this important re-orientation could not lead to a successful accomplishment of Heidegger’s original intention, to conceive Being without being, what would have enabled him to pass on from the metaphysics of being to the metaphysics of Being.