As I said above, in terms of its "essential being," we say a chair is brown, hard, etc. In terms of its "existential being," we say the chair is badly positioned, etc.
Heidegger writes:
"That is, we will proceed step by step toward "what" is meant in the concepts and toward the "way" they are formed and grounded. It will thereby become evident "what" these lectures are dealing with, as well as "how" they interrogate and investigate the objects, the mode of dealing with them. (Heidegger, Basic Concepts Of Ancient Philosophy, 1)
Heidegger writes:
"The essential relation between the 'will to power' and the 'eternal return of the same' must be thought in this way; however we cannot yet represent it here directly because metaphysics has neither considered nor even inquired about the origin of the distinction between 'essentia' and 'existentia.' " (Heidegger, "Nietzsche's Word: God Is Dead," in Off the Beaten Track, 178 - cited by Derrida in "Heidegger: The Question of Being & History," 43)
Sorry. There's one brief point I forgot:
What is the Existence-Essence unity/distinction?
As I said above, in terms of its "essential being," we say a chair is brown, hard, etc. In terms of its "existential being," we say the chair is badly positioned, etc.
Heidegger writes:
"That is, we will proceed step by step toward "what" is meant in the concepts and toward the "way" they are formed and grounded. It will thereby become evident "what" these lectures are dealing with, as well as "how" they interrogate and investigate the objects, the mode of dealing with them. (Heidegger, Basic Concepts Of Ancient Philosophy, 1)
Heidegger writes:
"The essential relation between the 'will to power' and the 'eternal return of the same' must be thought in this way; however we cannot yet represent it here directly because metaphysics has neither considered nor even inquired about the origin of the distinction between 'essentia' and 'existentia.' " (Heidegger, "Nietzsche's Word: God Is Dead," in Off the Beaten Track, 178 - cited by Derrida in "Heidegger: The Question of Being & History," 43)