Let us first return to the very beginning of Being and Time, to the first lines of the book. Heidegger begins Being and Time with a quote from Plato's Sophist. The Eleatic Stranger poses a question to Theaetetus as to the meaning of Being. This question arises "directly" in the center of the dialogue. Thus Being and Time, begins in the middle of a Platonic dialogue. Given such a conspicuous beginning, we are perhaps entitled to ask what will happen in the middle of Being and Time itself.

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