Agreeing and disagreeing with Heidegger

I partially like Heidegger's placing of Being in “Dasein” (see “Heidegger and Aquinas” by John Caputo), which to me means Being is placed in the existence of man, the place of meaning is man, meaning originates in the existence of man. Metaphysics had gotten away from the real world and was dwelling in pure faith or even pure logic with no relation to natural law. But even so Heidegger was too restricting.

I allow the ideal to go beyond man's mind alone and beyond man's existence. The ideal meaning can appear within the Spirit-Will which exists within man and within life. But this is a Spirit defined as remaining in the material-supermaterial world as part of the natural world. I think when early phenomenology tried to avoid metaphysical constructions it cut its head off, which is what science did.

If man can see the Spirit Within, man can see that man has his being, and higher evolved beings have their being, and our minds can only define being in relation to our level of evolutionary development.

This also means that man is not as “free” as Heidegger suggested. We are not “hurled” into the world with no idealistic-natural goal. The goal of the Spirit-Will is to activate our being at any given stage of evolution to evolve to the Zenith of Beings, which is Godhood. We are determined from within by the Spirit but shaped from without by “freer” evolution.