Is Dasein a Reality?
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Is Dasein a Reality?
That Pete wrote:
>Joseph Polanik wrote:
>>That Pete wrote:
>>>Joseph Polanik wrote:
>>>>I’ve previously mentioned my claim that both Descartes and Heidegger
>>>>would accept “I am” as a true statement.
>>>In what I referenced, Heidegger deconstructs Descartes’s claim. I
>>>have not come across a text where Heidegger accepts “I am” as a true
>>>statement, or otherwise discusses an “I am” of his own.
>>”Because Dasein has in each case mineness [Jemeinigkeit], one must
>>always use a personal pronoun when one addresses it: ‘I am’, ‘you
>>are’”. [BaT. trans by Macquarrie and Robinson. p. 68]
>>do you suppose that Heidegger would give us, as an example of using a
>>personal pronoun to address daSein, a statement that is false when
>>uttered by daSein?
>I read Heidegger in that passage as saying that “I am” means that I
>appropriate or I en-own myself, and not that I have a property called
>being, nor is that an assertion that could be resolved to be correct
>or not according to some particular system.
okay, so ‘I am’ remains true for both Descartes and Heidegger; but, you
are saying that, when dasein say ‘I am’, it means something different
than when Descartes says it.
supposing that you are right; dasein may reason as follows:
I am the referent of ‘I’ whenever I say ‘I am’ or ‘I appropriate’ or ‘I
en-own myself’.
hence, I am self-aware.
since nothing unreal is self-aware, I conclude that I am a reality of
some sort.
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what did the Heidegger say that prohibits dasein from reasoning in this
way?
Joe
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Philosophy is, after all, done ultimately in the first person for the
first person. — H-N Castaneda
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