HEIDEGGER AND THE FRONTIER-DIMENSION BETWEEN THE ARTIFACT AND THE OBJECT: A study concernig the term Zeugding “thing of use” in the context of Being and Time<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v3i1.12160"><i> <b>[doi: 10.7443/problemata.v3i1.121

Abstract

This exposition emerges as an attempt of explicitation of an enigmatic term, which, in spite of being used only one time within the pages of Being and Time, turns to be loaded with ontological relevance: It is the concept of Zeugding, or “Thing of Use”. This term seems to unify two apparently incompatible planes: the utilitary aspect of beings (beings as artifacts), and the objective aspect (beings as things), each one of them, discovered by a particular approach vision oriented at the world, respectively, Circunspection and Theory. In order to unravel the meaning of that peculiar notion, this investigation will engage in a study of the previously mentioned elemental modes of Comprehension. Our objective will be exploring the frontier-notion of the “Thing of Use” in the context of the principles of Heidegger’s Being and Time with a view to make its content explicit, and finally suggesting an interpretation of that concept as a incipient form of objectification, inherent to the thematising vision of science, which, nonetheless, occurs without the necessity of producing a change in the inmediate mode of acces to the world.