World

Abstract

Man is a wordly being. His essence is the to-be-in-the-world. In the second phase of his thought Heidegger shows man as an ‘ec-sisting’ being,¹ namely a being who stands out into the openness of Being which is the world.² In the third phase of his thought Heidegger deals with the same problem as dwelling. Dwelling is disclosed there as the preservation of the foursome, as letting earth and sky, mortals and gods bring up the structural world in which things can become what they are and in which man can live his life as placed in his history in the sense of befalling.³ Dwelling is a specifically human way of being. An animal does not dwell but merely lives biologically. To dwell means to be in the world as world. All three modes of man’s being, to- be-in-the-world, ‘ec-sistence,’ and dwelling, imply world.