for someone whose approach is phenomenological, an inevitable one.47
2. There-being
What is the initial conception of There-being ? We have seen how There-being is conceived as a comprehension of Being that is radically finite. It is, then, a completely ontological (not anthropological) phenomenon, whatever may be its relation to man. Whatever is to be said of it will be a consequence of this ontological character. Existence, thus understood, is conceived as an ''irruption" (Einbruch) into the totality of beings, by reason of which these beings as beings become manifest. "On the basis of [his] comprehension of Being, man is the There through whose Being the manifestive irruption among beings takes place. . . ."48 In other words, There-being is the There of Being among beings - it lets beings be (manifest), thereby rendering all encounter with them possible. It follows, then, that, correlative to the referential dependence of There-being on beings, there is a dependence of beings on There-being that they be (manifest). In letting beings be (manifest), however, There-being obviously does not "create" them but only dis-covers (ent-decken) them as what they are. What about beings before There-being discovers them? The question cannot be asked, as long as one restricts oneself to the focus of sheer phenomenology. In any case, this mutual dependence between beings and There-being is in fact only an explicitation of what we said before about Being as a correlate of There-being.49
If it is by the irruption among beings of existence that these beings become manifest, then there is no difficulty in understanding how There-being "lets" these beings be (seinlassen), In letting them be manifest, it "liberates" them from concealment,
47 " . . . Le principe primordial de la philosophie de Husserl - encore qu'il soit plus sou vent implicitement suppose qu'explicit ement exprim£ - c'est celui qu'être fest avoir un sens; l'être vrai est l'être pour' un sujet. . . ." (Quentin Lauer, Phénoménologie de Husserl [Paris: Presses Universitäres de France, 1955], p. 4). Though There-being is not a "subject" in the Husserlean sense but transcendence, the similarity of attitude between Husserl and Heidegger on this point is beyond question.
48 "Auf dem Grunde des Seinsverständnisses ist der Mensch das Da, mit dessen Sein der eröffnende Einbruch in das Seiende geschieht, . . ." (KM, p. 206).
49 SZ, pp. 219-221.