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				Helt plötsligt i min läsning av Heidegger stötte jag på ett ställe som tycks göra det mystiska varat mycket mindre mystiskt. Heidegger skriver att man i gamla byggnader kan känna deras vara direkt som en doft: 
Behagar herr Heidegger skämta? Först så beskriver han hur väldigt svårt det är att hitta något varandes vara ens i dess aspekter o.s.v. (det fortgår ett par sidor till), men sedan säger han att man mer eller mindre helt enkelt kan känna ett varandes vara på dess inpyrda doft, som om denna var något med metafysisk särställning. Visserligen så påminner han sig en mening om att byggnadens fortvaro inte är beroende av denna doft (sista meningen i citatet), men han tycks ändå ge ontologisk särställning till denna mystiska lukt som på ett bondskt hederligt vis ger oss en helhetskänsla för ett föremål eller en byggnad???
			
			
		
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			Ursprungligen postat av Introduction to Metaphysics
			
			
So it turns out that the question "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?" forces us to the prior question: "How does it stand with being" ["Hur står det till med varat?" (min svenska översättning)]
We are now asking about something that we hardly grasp, something that is now no more than the sound of a word for us and that puts us in danger of falling victim to the mere idolization of words in our further questioning. So it is all the more necessary for us to get clear from the outset about how it stands for us at present with Being and with our understanding of Being. Here it is important above all to impress on our experience again and again the fact that we are not able to lay hold of the Being of beings directly and expressly, neither by way of beings, nor in beings--nor anywhere else at all.
A few examples should help. Over there, on the other side of the street, stands the high school building. A being. We can scour every side of the building from the outside, roam through the inside from basement to attic, and note everything that can be found there: hallways, stairs, classrooms, and their furnishings. Everywhere we find beings, and in a very definite order. Where now is the Being of this high school? It is, after all. The building is. The Being of this being belongs to it if anything does, and nevertheless we do not find this Being within the being.
Moreover, Being does not consist in our observing beings. The building stands there even if we do not observe it. We can come across it only because it already is. In addition, the Being of this building does not at all seem to be identical for everybody. For us, as observers and passers-by, it is not what it is for the students who sit inside, not just because they see it only from the inside but because for them this building really is what it is and how it is. One can, as it were, smell the Being of such buildings, and often after decades one still has the scent in one's nose. The scent provides the Being of this being much more directly and truly than it could be communicated by any description or inspection. [min understrykning] On the other hand, the subsistence of the building does not depend on this scent that is hovering around somewhere.
		
	We are now asking about something that we hardly grasp, something that is now no more than the sound of a word for us and that puts us in danger of falling victim to the mere idolization of words in our further questioning. So it is all the more necessary for us to get clear from the outset about how it stands for us at present with Being and with our understanding of Being. Here it is important above all to impress on our experience again and again the fact that we are not able to lay hold of the Being of beings directly and expressly, neither by way of beings, nor in beings--nor anywhere else at all.
A few examples should help. Over there, on the other side of the street, stands the high school building. A being. We can scour every side of the building from the outside, roam through the inside from basement to attic, and note everything that can be found there: hallways, stairs, classrooms, and their furnishings. Everywhere we find beings, and in a very definite order. Where now is the Being of this high school? It is, after all. The building is. The Being of this being belongs to it if anything does, and nevertheless we do not find this Being within the being.
Moreover, Being does not consist in our observing beings. The building stands there even if we do not observe it. We can come across it only because it already is. In addition, the Being of this building does not at all seem to be identical for everybody. For us, as observers and passers-by, it is not what it is for the students who sit inside, not just because they see it only from the inside but because for them this building really is what it is and how it is. One can, as it were, smell the Being of such buildings, and often after decades one still has the scent in one's nose. The scent provides the Being of this being much more directly and truly than it could be communicated by any description or inspection. [min understrykning] On the other hand, the subsistence of the building does not depend on this scent that is hovering around somewhere.
Behagar herr Heidegger skämta? Först så beskriver han hur väldigt svårt det är att hitta något varandes vara ens i dess aspekter o.s.v. (det fortgår ett par sidor till), men sedan säger han att man mer eller mindre helt enkelt kan känna ett varandes vara på dess inpyrda doft, som om denna var något med metafysisk särställning. Visserligen så påminner han sig en mening om att byggnadens fortvaro inte är beroende av denna doft (sista meningen i citatet), men han tycks ändå ge ontologisk särställning till denna mystiska lukt som på ett bondskt hederligt vis ger oss en helhetskänsla för ett föremål eller en byggnad???
 
					