Ontology

I have only begun lately reading Heidegger via my reading of Karl Barth. My
ontology has been derived to date from scraps of Aristotle, Aquinas and
Maritain.

I would be interested in any comments you may have on the following
model:

Substance



Essence Existence




Being


You must imagine the above as a diamond. Each point of the diamond is
interpreted as a limit of Dasein.

Substance is Dasein whose essence is to exist, the Thomist and Cartesian
definition of God.

Being is utter object, or to use Ted Hughes's phrase, the Goddess of Complete
Being.

Everyday Being would be a line between Essence and Existence, i.e. a being whose
essence is not to exist, whose "what" is totally separated from his "that".

Transcendance is to move this line towards subjective, substantial being and
falling to move down towards, again in a phrase of Hughes, towards the Queen of
Hell, impenetrable, objective reality.

Essence is the limit of knowing and existence the limit of the world.


Jonathan Crowther



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