immediately approached [G414] anew in a more historical manner in the lecture-course of the summer semester 1927.7
Nevertheless, viewed from the standpoint of these retrospective observations, •Time and Being", that totally inadequate section would have been at the end quite important if it were to be printed. This publication would not have let the misinterpretation of Sein und Zeit as a mere "ontology" of man and the misconstrual of "fundamental ontology" go as far as these misinterpretations have gone and are going.
Precisely because vis-a-vis the entire metaphysics hitherto the inquiry of Sein und Zeit into the meaning of being (into a projecting-opening of the truth of being - not of beings - ) is something entirely different, the inquiry in the withheld section on "Time and Being" could have shown nevertheless what Sein und Zeit accomplishes, although what this work strives for is often enough said in what is communicated. For the inadequacy of the withheld section on ·Time and Being" was not because of an uncertainty concerning the direction of the inquiry and its domain, but because of an uncertainty that only concerned the appropriate elaboration.
And yet, who is now able to assess precisely what was, or what would have been ·better"? The efforts of another decade show that the difficulties of mastering the question of the truth of be-ing are not of such a kind that pertain to the so-called •birth of a problem" and its isolated tackling. Rather: because the inquiry into being is grounded most intimately in the inquiry into Da-sein and vice versa, that is, because the intimacy of the relation between being and Da-sein continues to be basically the sustaining and prompting relation that immediately holds unto the abground, the inquiry into Da-sein must be made anew and begun more originarily, but at the same time in explicit relation to the truth of be-ing. Therefore, right away I had to subject anew everything that had to do with 'ground', [Grund] (cf. Vom Wesen des Grundes8) to the motions of questioning and thus simultaneously clarify and sharpen my entire position on [G415] the history of Occidental philosophy hitherto.
7 Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie, lecture-course of summer semester 1927 held at the University of Marburg, GA 24, ed. F.-W. v. Herrmann (Frankfurt am Main: 1975).
8 See Wegmarken, GA 9, ed. F.-W. v. Herrmann, (Frankfurt am Main: 1976), pp. 123-75.