Abstract
In this paper I attempt to throw some light on the basic meanings of ”existential solipsism” in early Heidegger and propose some critical response from Nishida's philosophy. My paper is divided into four sections. After a brief explication of the problematic the article (section one), I then try to reconstruct Heidegger's theory of the encounter with the others in his ”Being and Time”. It is well known that Heidegger breaks the inner-outer distinction of Cartesian philosophy and begins his philosophy from the analysis of existence of Dasein. For Heidegger the encountering with entities as entities, and therefore others as others, is interpretative. The meaning of the other cannot be exhausted through the encounter with the ready-to-hand equipment (section two). Our world is fundamentally shared with the others. Heidegger bases his theory of others on the notion of ”being-with” (Mitsein) and ”being-with-one-another” (Miteinandersein) and gives a purely descriptive account of our pre-theoretical involvement with the other which constitutes the inauthenticity of our ”being-with” and ”being-with-one-another”. I reconstruct the path which leading form inauthentic encounter with others to the authentic encounter with others (section three). It is my view that (section four) Heidegger's early philosophy is still a form of solipsism, which should be overcome from Nishida's philosophy of nothingness.