CHAPTER ONE
The noun, "life," has a rich and autonomous meaning, which we can briefly articulate into three senses:
1. Life in the sense of the unity of succession and maturation of the two previously named modes of "to live"; this unity in its extension over the totality of a life or over any delimited portion, in its full or partial manifold of actualization, and in its respective originality or lack of originality (aversion and direct hostility to the origin).
2. Life, grasped as such a delimited unity of succession: now in the sense of something that specifically bears possibilities, ones matured partially in life itself and for h. We of which we say that it can bring all things. that it is incalculable; and it is itself something which bears possibilities and is its possibilities, itself as a possibility (a category which can be grasped in a phenomenologically rigorous way; from the very outset it has nothing to do with logical or a priori possibility).
3. Life understood in a sense in which 1. and 2. intertwine: the unity of extension in possibility and as possibility—lapsed possibilities. laden with possibilities and laden with itself, forming possibilities—and this whole taken as reality, indeed as reality in its specific opacity as power, fate.
These three senses of the noun contain the following structural indications, which are connected together categorially: the characters of extension, unity of succession, and manifold of actualization; the articulation as possibility, delivered over to possibility, developing possibility; furthermore, as reality, power in its opacity, fate.
In the just specified senses of the noun, "life," and the verb, "to live," i.e., in the circuit of the indicated expressive directions, a peculiar prevailing sense now resounds: life = existence, "being" in and through life. It is characteristic of this sense that for the most pan it precisely does only "sound," weak and forlorn, and is not genuinely heard. Derivatively, we can understand that its appropriation and philosophical interpretation remain fragmentary or else are settled by way or a construction.
This sense in the aforementioned nexuses of meaning should be brought into relief—to the extent that the sense itself permits this, at the current methodological level of our considerations—in such a way that this bringing into relief is accomplished In union with a more precise basic articulation of the phenomenon, "life," i.e., a long with a directing of the gaze to ward something that is co-present in the phenomenon, "life," as such and is co-grasped In the very sense of life.