Ifiok: Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies, 2024
Heidegger, interpreting notion of Being from a phenomenological standpoint declares that it is that which discloses itself exactly as it is. Being is not merely Being for its own sake, it is always the Being of some entity. And there is a being whose task it is to so define Being. That is Dasein-the entity to whom the question of meaning of Being is posed, contemplated and rendered. Being is definable by Dasein because it (Dasein) is both ontically and ontologically constituted. But what does ontic and ontological composition of Dasein mean? How does the nature prepare Dasein for definition or interpretation of Being? What does the interpretation portend for Reality or the world? This essay applies critical and analytical methods of philosophical inquiry to respond to these questions.