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From Heidegger's and Satre's Philosophy of Equipment to the Metaphysical Constitution of the World of Equipments in I-Chuan 

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Nien-Feng Chiang

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 This paper purports to analyze the philosophical implication of concept of “equipment” (or “instruments”) contained in early Heideggere’s Being and Time and early Sartre’s being and Nothingness. By means of a comparative study, we try to reveal some common aspects of this fundamental concept as assumed by vith of these two theoretical systems. Starting from this fundamental concept, especially that advanced by Heidegger, we then proceed to expose the metaphysical meaning of this concept endorsed by I-Chuan. What we try to argue is that the metaphysical meanings 

involved in equipments are merely open to more primitive minds, since they are, so to speak, pre-epistemic. Indeed it is in this light that some ancient Chinese philosophers comprehended the certainty of this world, a point that we can detect in I-Chuan. We also try to show that Heidegger’s phenomenological investigation into the constitution of the world, with emphasis on its Zuhandenheit rather than Vorhandenheit, shores a common view with I-Chuan.