Cognitive-System Phenomenology — A Critique of Husserl (part 22)

In Section 20 we introduced the super-existence of a general object, and defined the super-existence of a general object as those existences related to that object, all of which jointly determine the object. In the present section, we shall discuss the super-existence of the human being, or more precisely, the super-existence of Dasein. One can easily imagine that the kinds of super-existence of Dasein are extremely numerous. I personally believe that the super-existence of Dasein could even constitute a specialized field of research in its own right. This is because a human being can function both as a subject and as an object, and because the subject can also take itself as an object. These facts greatly diversify our investigation of the super-existence of the human being. In this section, we shall introduce in-itself super-existence, self-aspect super-existence, and other-aspect super-existence, corresponding to in-itself super-existence and subjective super-existence in the case of general objects.