“Specific” Belonging and Modifiability of the Ways of Being

Abstract

This paper unfolds the «specific» or «ownmost» belonging of certain ways of Being (e.g., existence, ready-to-hand) to certain entities, which is a subject that Heidegger mentions but does not investigate. The exhibition is articulated in four steps. First, we deal with Heidegger’s confusing conceptuality about the ways of Being. Second, we investigate the link between the ways of Being and the entities, taking into account that both are phenom-ena and showing the impossibility of understanding this link and the consequent specific belonging in the frame of a “subjectivism” or “objectivism”. Third, we argue the main proposal of this research: the phenomenal character, neither subjective nor objective, of the specific belonging of the ways of Being to entities and the possibility of their modifia-bility. Fourth, we focus Dasein’s pre-theoretical existence as the analytical ground in which the specific belonging and its modifiability are made explicit hermeneutically-phenomenologically.