Sense of being as a questioning of the assumptions of human existence

Abstract

The text intends to show the importance of the Heideggerian project of deconstruction of Metaphysics, which involves the challenge of remembering the oblivion of being due to the human being's tendency to get used to and accommodate to a historical project in progress. Reviving the question of being has, in this sense, the potential to release the energy and creativity that is retained and crystallized in the normalization of the tradition that takes the entity and not the being as a measure. We are born, grow up and become what we are from a reality established in a certain time and place. We tend to lose contact with the origins and finite condition of this historical configuration that shelters us. Reconnect the relationship with the origins has the potential to free our behaviors and understandings from the mechanical and automatic way of everyday life. Along with the question of being, Heidegger asks for the understanding of time that guides Metaphysics. Being is understood from time as presence and not like movement, as a course that characterizes human existence. We emphasize the relationship that is established between being and the question of time, historicity, finitude, aiming to show the implications of this relationship in human existence. Understood from the difference between being and entity, the human being rescues his humanity (his Dasein), frees himself from the fixation on the historical determinations in which he is already and opens up to the always being-possible. Asking about being and about time has to do with living again in the proximity of the inaugural, of the experience that is not limited to achievements and explanations, but founds and makes them possible. In other words, asking about the being has the meaning of turning attention to the assumptions that configure human existence in its historicity.