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<p>Two arguments have been offered in recent years to show that Being, as Heidegger conceives of it, is a being. Since Heidegger also claims that ‘the Being of beings “is” not itself a being,’ each argument gives rise to a paradox. This paper accomplishes three things. First, it develops an objection to the two arguments. Second, it answers this objection by appealing to the principle of the utmost generality of Being (by which our concept of Being is the most general one that we have) and, in this way, recovers the paradoxes. Third, it develops a new argument to show that Being is a being based directly on this principle. Due to its direct employment of this principle—without which the other two arguments fail—the resultant paradox proves to be the most fundamental of the lot, hence the ‘arch-paradox’ of Being.</p>

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Being and utmost generality: introducing the arch-paradox of Being

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    2026年1月19日

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  • Maciej Czerkawski

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Two arguments have been offered in recent years to show that Being, as Heidegger conceives of it, is a being. Since Heidegger also claims that ‘the Being of beings “is” not itself a being,’ each argument gives rise to a paradox. This paper accomplishes three things. First, it develops an objection to the two arguments. Second, it answers this objection by appealing to the principle of the utmost generality of Being (by which our concept of Being is the most general one that we have) and, in this way, recovers the paradoxes. Third, it develops a new argument to show that Being is a being based directly on this principle. Due to its direct employment of this principle—without which the other two arguments fail—the resultant paradox proves to be the most fundamental of the lot, hence the ‘arch-paradox’ of Being.