Date of Award

2016

Document Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Bachelors

Department

Humanities

First Advisor

Flakne, April

Area of Concentration

Philosophy

Abstract

This thesis is centered around a close reading of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time with the intention of explaining this philosopher’s magnum opus in terms of the only question which could ever be asked. To do this, we follow Heidegger’s exposition quite closely at first, attempting to see how it is, on his own terms, that the project that Being and Time undertakes is of an ontological character, and to see how ‘phenomenological ontology’ is the only genuinely transcendental science. At a critical point in his analytic, our account diverges radically from his by way of a transcendental injunction served on Heidegger’s notion of ‘primordial truth’. This injunction actually takes the form of an irruption which only first serves to critically analyze Heidegger’s notion of truth, and then goes on to analyze the nature of truth more generally, with the aim of securing for itself the transcendental basis of truth. Our thesis ends with a consideration of ‘the mystery’, as that place where all mysteries grow.

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