Heidegger foregrounds relationality through the existential structure of Being-in-the-World. Possibility is inseparable from the situated, embodied, and temporal context of Dasein: human existence is always already entangled in a network of relations with others, tools, and the surrounding world. Being is co-constituted; it emerges through engagement, care, and the interpretive structures that disclose the horizon of potentiality.
Relationality governs both ontology and epistemology. The world is not a collection of discrete objects but a meaningful totality, where each element gains intelligibility only in relation to the field of concerns, practices, and significances in which it is embedded. Potentiality is constrained and enabled by these interconnections, shaping how Dasein can act, perceive, and understand.
Heidegger’s phenomenology extends the insights of processual and relational ontologies. Like Whitehead, he situates being within dynamic interrelations; like Spinoza and Leibniz, he emphasises interconnectedness; like Hegel, he recognises the historical and contextual shaping of possibility. Yet he introduces the existential dimension: relationality is not merely structural, it is lived and interpretive, continuously enacted through human attunement and engagement.
By articulating Being-in-the-World as the primary mode of relational existence, Heidegger provides a model in which potential is co-constituted through engagement, interpretation, and temporal situatedness. Possibility is not abstracted from experience; it is inseparable from the relational horizons that disclose what can be, reflecting a profoundly perspectival ontology that continues to influence contemporary thought.
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