I.i The Necessity for Explicitly Restating teh Question of Being

Heidegger points out the lack in our dealing with the question of being has led us to stray away from its meaning. Being has been popularly understood over time as a method of existence. Specifically from Plato and Aristotle where the question of being became an ongoing investigation to Hegel who narrowed it down to logic, being has become trivialized through history.

Reasons for restating the question of being. Being is...

1. most universal - being transcends any universality of genus. (unity)
2. indefinable - cannot be conceived as an entity
3. self-evident - use is made of being merely in cognition or assertion toward entities

all this points to the necessity for re-assertion and even more an adequate way of formulating its reassertion