Despite Heidegger’s attempt ‘to understand time in terms of time’ and to overcome the metaphysical neglect or forgetfulness of being in addressing being as Dasein, sheer daily existence, he has not pushed the boundaries far enough, has not removed the objectivity of time. Even if we understand time in terms of time, it is still the human wishful thinking of grasping and getting hold of something secure. Heidegger’s being and time in this sense has pointed into the right direction and challenges the older concepts of targeting and conceptualising the transcendent, missing out the real ‘place’ of being and where being is constituting itself, namely in and through the subject. However, even he is still caught in the long metaphysical tradition which needed to locate and to stylise being. Even if this being, Dasein, ‘in its most extreme possibility of Being’ is time itself, timely, than time is still thought of in ontological terms, physics replacing metaphysics, the daily removing the eternal, the running ahead from the now to the future taking the place of past, present and future. And Heidegger admits that, though ‘Dasein flees in the face of the “how”’ which is time, being ‘clings to the specific “what” that is present’, and Heidegger underlines the physical reality and the assumed entity by adding: ‘Everything that is encountered in the world is encountered by Dasein as residing in the now; thus it encounters the time itself that Dasein in each case is, but is as present’.
