to be

We explain what being is for philosophy and linguistics. In addition, the univocal concept and the analogical concept of being.

Being is a fundamental philosophical concept, referring to objects or all kinds of living beings.

What is to be?

Being is one of the most basic and fundamental concepts of the philosophy, which means that it is one of the most complex to define. Generally, with the word "being" we refer to everything that exists, that is, the ontological reality of things or, in other words, everything that exists. is. But according to the philosophical tradition, there are two concepts of being recognizable:

  • The univocal concept of "being". We understand it as the most general characteristic of all entities or things, that is, that which remains and is common to all without distinction, once we have removed all their particular and individual characteristics. It would be the opposite of essence.
  • The analog concept of "being". Being is that which all things possess, but in a different way; so that in this everything coincides and everything differs. The only thing that can be outside of being, in this sense, is nothingness.

Often, to understand the concept of being, it must be contrasted with the concept of being or entity, in the sense that "Being is always the being of a being", since all beings are necessarily entities, although in a different way. : a person (entity) It can be a man or a woman (to be), for example.

So one could conclude that being is the specific way of giving itself in the reality that has an entity.

In the linguistics, Being is everything that is expressed by means of a verbal infinitive. According to the philosophical postulates of Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), in his famous book Being and time, being is weather, because the things that are occur on a temporal horizon, and are never entirely permanent.

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