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merely pretending to be somewho
as a way of appearing in a favorable light to others. This brings
into play the ontological dimension
of whoness or quissity as an essential element of human interlocution in addition to the dimension
of whatness within which things
are shown to be (apparently) what
they are.

The Importance
of Seeing Whoness
This dimension of the interplay
of whoness, which is one facet of
the happening of a)lh q/ eia, is
beyond the horizon of the power
of technique understood on the
basis of the core metaphysical concepts of du /namij and e )ne /rgeia
because metaphysical du /namij
meta \ lo /gou thinks only the onesided emanation of power from a
human a)rxh / over something, or
over human beings understood as
things. Only once the dimension
of whoness comes into explicit
view on the horizon of thinking,
when the fog lifts from the clearing of a)lh q/ eia will we truly
be able to take the side-step out
of the historical trajectory laid
down in the casting of metaphysical thinking in the first Greek
beginning.
The dimension of whoness is
a fold sui generis in the manifold
of open timespace that must be
distinguished from the whatness of
the historical series of metaphysical
castings of beings as a whole and
also saved from the grip of the social
sciences that can only get a theoretical and ultimately practical hold on
human being itself by conceiving it
as a kind of whatness.

In moving from technology, on
which Heidegger's thinking was
single-mindedly focused, to technique, which broadens the horizon, and then to interplay, in which
the other comes into play in an
exchange and interchange, we prepare the way for reconsidering the
one-sided metaphysical casting of
power in favor of a casting of being
as the stage of presence on which
beings estimate each other in their
mutual interchanges.

Author Information
The author is a member of ICIE, the
International Center for Information Ethics, Karlsruhe, Germany,
and in 2011-2013 was engaged as
a phenomenological ethicist in the
project A Culture of Privacy and
Trust for the Internet of acatech,
the National Academy of Science
and Engineering, Berlin. He can be
reached at arte-fact.org, Antwerpener Str. 1, Cologne, Germany;
email: me@arte-fact.org.

Acknowledgment
This article is an abridged version of
a paper presented to the School of
Philosophy at Sydney university on
Sept. 10, 2008, at the invitation of
Prof. Duncan Ivison [1], and to the
41st Annual North American Heidegger Conference May 3-5, 2007,
at DePaul university in Chicago,
organized by Sean D. Kirkland,
Will McNeill, and Maureen Melnyk
[2]. This paper also was presented in
an earlier version to the conference
4. Aussprache über die Philosophie
Martin Heideggers, June 1-3, 2006,
at the Bergische university in Wuppertal, Germany, convened by Peter
Trawny and Eric S. Nelson.

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