In profound and precise analyses Heidegger describes the main characteristics of the being that is able to ask the question of Being: by this being Heidegger means us, human beings.
In fact, Being and Time is nothing but the preparation for a new way of asking the question of Being. Moreover, a definition fixates and delimits, while Being is supposed to ‘be’ dynamic and all-embracing. One cannot ask for a definition, because that would already presuppose the use of the verb ‘to be’ and thus an idea of Being.
It is difficult, however, to articulate the question of Being in the right way. In contrast, Heidegger is looking for a more dynamic understanding of Being and time. The highest being, therefore, presupposed by all beings, was assumed to be a being that is always here and now, an eternal divine being. Past and future were secondary modes of Being and time, showing a lack of presence: what is in the past, is no more and what is in the future is not yet. In the philosophical tradition, Being was implicitly understood, in terms of time, as a form of presence: being here and now. Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time is dedicated to the question of Being, according to Heidegger the main question of all philosophy.
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