Beyond Heidegger’s Ontology: Being is Belonging

This book develops the Philosophy of Belonging, a systematic ontological framework built upon the proposition that Being is Belonging. It argues that belonging is not merely a social or psychological phenomenon but the ontological condition that makes existence possible across the material, biological, and institutional-human strata of reality. Beginning with a historical reconstruction of ontology from ancient cosmology through Christianity and Heidegger, the work proposes a post-Heideggerian ontology that incorporates contemporary developments in evolutionary biology, psychology, institutional economics, and complexity science. Four foundational principles organize the framework: Being is Belonging; synchrony and diachrony; imperfect belonging; and stratified belonging complexity. The Philosophy of Belonging provides a unified account of personal identity, institutions, civilization, globalization, and humanity’s future while rejecting both essentialism and historical teleology.