Dasein, Japanese Babies and Monadology
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Bob states, “To begin with, we need to recall that the stand Dasein takes on itself, its existence, is not some inner thought or experience; it is the way Dasein acts. (What makes a Japanese baby a Japanese baby is first and foremost what it does and how things show up for it, and only derivatively its thoughts, assuming it has any.) Dasein takes a stand on itself through its involvement with things and people. In everyday terms, we understand ourselves and our existence by way of the activities we pursue and the things we take care of. To exist then means, among other things, relating to oneself by being with beings”….
I ask, “In what sense of Dasein is a monad a monad”?
