And positive definition of a concept, see Martin Heidegger, Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik: Welt—Endlichkeit—Einsamkeit (Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann. Backman, J 2007, ' All of a Sudden: Heidegger and Plato's Parmenides ' Epoche, vol. Martin Heidegger, Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik:.
PRELIMINARY NOTE In its initial form this section will offer five pages: 1) Heidegger's contributions to the interpretation of the Greek word for and to the history of his translation in Latin as Veritas; 2) An annotated bibliography of Heidegger's texts on and a selection of critical studies; 3) Heidegger's contributions to the interpretation of the; 4) An annotated bibliography of Heidegger's texts on the History of Metaphysics as and a selection of critical studies; 5) A complete list of Heidegger's German works published in the Gesamtausgabe (Collected Works Edition).
“We still have scholars today who busy themselves with philosophy and who consider freedom-from-every-standpoint not to be a standpoint, as though such freedom did not depend upon those very standpoints. These curious attempts to flee from one’s own shadow we may leave to themselves, since discussion of them yields no tangible results. Yet we must heed one thing: this standpoint of freedom-from-standpoints is of the opinion that it has overcome the one-sidedness and bias of prior philosophy, which always was, and is, defined by its standpoints. However, the standpoint of standpointlessness represents no overcoming.
In truth it is the extreme consequence, affirmation, and final stage of that opinion concerning philosophy which locates all philosophy extrinsically in standpoints that are ultimately right in front of us, standpoints whose one-sidedness we can try to bring into equilibrium. Dasein is not an attribute or property of a human entity: “It follows that Being-in is not a ‘property’ which Dasein sometimes has and sometimes does not have, and without which it could just be just as well as it could be with it. It is not the case that man ‘is’ and then has, by way of an extra, a relationship-of-Being towards the ‘world’—a world with which he provides himself occasionally.” (BT 84) Dasein is a precondition for Being: “Of course only as long as Dasein is (that is, only as long as an understanding of Being is ontically possible), ‘is there’ Being.
When Dasein does not exist, ‘independence’ ‘is’ not either, nor ‘is’ the ‘in-itself’. In such a case this sort of thing can be neither understood nor not understood.
In such a case even entities within-the-world can neither be discovered not lie hidden. In such a case it cannot be said that entities are, not can it be said that they are not. But now, as long as there is an understanding of Being and therefore an understanding of presence-at-hand, it can indeed be said that in this case entities will still continue to be.” (BT 255).