The critical recovery of the question for being in Heidegger

Abstract

This paper discusses the role the question of being plays in the development of Heidegger's thought. It is shown that the basic question of traditional ontology doesn't provide a Leitfaden for Heidegger's philosophical development as a whole. Actually, in his first academic writings, Heidegger shifts from the traditional neoscholastic view to Lotze and Lask's Geltungslogik. But later, in the 1919-1925/26 period, Heidegger goes back to the old question of ontology. An important reason for this was given by a critical view about the ontological aporiae to which both neokantian and phenomenological philosophy of logic with their criticism against psychologism had led.