ANALYTIC OF DASEIN' AS EQUIPMENTALIZATION AND DEFORMALIZATION OF SEINEDES

Abstract

One of the errors of pre-Heideggerian metaphysics according to Heidegger is the failure to recognize that the point-de-part of ontology is Fundamental Ontology. This is what he also called 'Analytic of Dasein', that is, Analysis of being-there or human being. Given that Dasein is the ontological explicator wherein the Being question can be properly investigated, Heidegger reduces meaning as a referential function of Dasein expressed in modes such as being-in, being-with, being-by and being-for-the-sake-of. To this end, meaning is no longer private or a product of consciousness but a Framework or what Heidegger also termed Deployment Totality. The problem however, is that within this Framework, Seinedes, which is a part of Being is reduced to an Equipment except given Dasein's encounter. Through the method of philosophical hermeneutics, this paper interprets Heideggerian 'Analytic of Dasein' as overtly an equipmentalization and deformalization of Seinedes. The equipmentalization and deformalization of Seinedes contradicts meaningfulness as a Framework. To deploy Totality, one must take cognizance of the existing being-in, being-with, being-by and being-for-the-sake-of for the being-there to proper exist as a being-in-the-world and for meaning to be properly conceived as a Framework.