HEIDEGGER ON BEING-IN-TRUTH: ADEQUACY AND UNVEILING

Abstract

This paper discusses the Heideggerian treatment of the problem of truth, particularly in Being and Time, highlighting the transition from the classical idea of truth as correspondence to the notion of unveiling. It begins by contextualizing the philosophical tradition, especially starting with Aristo­tle, whose categories systematized the logic of predication and influenced the identification between being and entity. Heidegger, in re-reading the tradition, questions this identification and proposes a return to the original phenomenon of truth, understood as the unveiling of being-in-the-world. Philosophy, in this context, is historically viewed as a search for truth, but Heidegger criticizes its reduction to a mere science of truth, which could limit philosophy to the status of a regional ontology and lead to the loss of its fundamental character. Thus, the investigation of truth paves the way for rethinking the very meaning of being and its manifestation on the horizon of existence.

Keywords: Heidegger. Truth. Unveiling. Fundamental Ontology. Hermeneutic Phenomenology.