Abstract

Relational structure is a primitive notion of Heidegger’s Dasein. By analyzing the concept of pros-ti as it emerges from the Heidegger’s 1924 course dedicated to Plato’s Sophist, I outline the Platonic and Aristotelic roots of Heideggerian Mitsein. Arguably the Mitsein makes explicit the instances of the pros ti — in other words, the instances of Aristotle’s concept of relatedness/intentionality that Heidegger ascribes to Plato’s heteron — but giving them an existential value, having Heidegger pursued the shift from realism to phenomenologyexistentialism. The article concludes by emphasizing the relevance of these themes for social ontology.

Highlights

  • Relational structure is a primitive notion of Heidegger’s Dasein

  • The Mitsein makes explicit the instances of the pros ti — in other words, the instances of Aristotle’s concept of relatedness/intentionality that Heidegger ascribes to Plato’s heteron — but giving them an existential value, having Heidegger pursued the shift from realism to phenomenologyexistentialism

  • My main thesis is that the Mitsein brings to light instances of the pros ti, i.e. the Aristotelic concept of relatedness/intentionality that Heidegger ascribes to Plato’s heteron as well, emphatizing the existential value of relatedness, freeing it from the mere ontological grounding

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Summary

The intentional structure of Dasein

The complementarity existing within relations implies the fact that the relation itself is not a bystander between two terms, but the very being of such terms establishing both their identity and mutual difference. A radical difference emerges within the continuity between the Sophist and Sein und Zeit — a difference which can be arguably considered as a cipher of the wider discontinuity between ancient and modern philosophy: Heidegger’s Mitsein does not refer anymore to pure relatedness among objects at an ontological level but to the relational nexus with the other which constitutes human experience. For its own nature, striving towards what is other than itself, it is a Zu-Sein Due to this structural mediation between what comprehends and what is comprehended the Dasein reaches outside itself. It is for this reason that Heidegger uses the term “ex-sistence”, relational ecstaticity

From realism to the existential
Mitsein and appearing
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