DE Weekly: Heidegger, Dasein, & Temporality

“Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing? That is the question,” wrote Martin Heidegger in his Introduction to Metaphysics. “. . . this is obviously the first of all questions,” he continued.

Heidegger was right; questioning our being certainly is the “first” of all questions, for every other question about the nature of being arises from it.