Abstract In this paper, I will discuss the need for a theory of essences within Object-Oriented Ontology (OOO) and then formulate one. I will do so by drawing on Graham Harman’s work on OOO and Martin Heidegger’s thought on the essence of being, presented in his Introduction to Metaphysics. Harman touches on essences, describing them as the tension between a withdrawn object and its withdrawn qualities, but fails to distinguish between essential and inessential qualities within this framework. To fill in the gaps, I will turn to Heidegger’s explication of phusis in order to show that an essential aspect of being is how one enters into causal relations and continually reveals oneself to other beings. In bringing OOO and Heidegger together, I will find that each object has a unique way of exerting itself in the world and that the domestic relations that make up this unique profile are essential to it, while other domestic relations, those that do not influence its particular way of exerting itself, are inessential. Thus, the essence will be found to be the set of domestic relations that make up the determinate form, or unique causal profile, of the object.

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对象的本质：阐述面向对象本体中的本质理论

摘要在本文中，我将讨论面向对象本体（OOO）中对本质理论的需求，然后提出一个。为此，我将借鉴格雷厄姆·哈曼（Graham Harman）关于OOO的工作以及马丁·海德格尔（Martin Heidegger）关于存在的本质的思想，这些思想在他的《形而上学导论》中有介绍。哈曼（Harman）谈到了本质，将其描述为被撤回的对象与其被撤消的特质之间的张力，但未能在此框架内区分本质和非本质特质。为了填补这些空白，我将转向海德格尔对幸福感的阐释，以表明存在的一个基本方面是人如何进入因果关系并不断向其他人展示自己。在将OOO和Heidegger整合在一起时，我会发现，每个对象在世界上都有自己独特的表现方式，构成这种独特形象的家庭关系对其至关重要，而其他不影响其特定表现方式的家庭关系则是至关重要的。无关紧要的。因此，将发现本质是构成对象的确定形式或独特因果关系的一组家庭关系。