Is the Concept of Dasein in Heidegger`s Being and Time a Humanistic Concept？
Author：Wing-Wah Chan
Abstract /
The aim of this essay is to show that Dasein in Heidegger`s Being and Time is not a humanistic concept. In doing this I will separate my work into three section. In the first section I will probe the concept of humanism by an analysis on Heidegger`s essay entitled "Plato`s Doctrine of Truth." I will conclude that humanism, on Heidegger`s view, is the claim that man, in his thinking, has forgotten being and presupposes himself as the ultimate ground. In the second section I will show, by an analysis on the methodology and the Being of Dasein Heidegger invokes in his Being and Time, that the ground of Dasein is not itself, but facticity- that is, something beyond Dasein. With these conclusions in mind, it will be reasonable to assert that Dasein is not a humanistic concept. In the last section I will indicate that only when we presuppose that Dasein is not a humanistic concept can we coherently explain the development of Heidegger`s thought.