Is Dasein a Reality?
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michaelP wrote:
>Joe, for me [!] Heidegger’s term ‘da-sein’ refers not to a human being
>but the be-ing of being human
it is difficult to reconcile this claim with Heidegger’s claims:
“Without any ontological transparency, it has nevertheless been revealed
that in every case I am myself the entity which we call Dasein … “
[361]
“How can dasein exist as a unity … Manifestly, it can so exist only in
such a way that it is itself this Being in its essential possibilities
— that in each case *I* am this entity.” [365 (emphasis in original)]
[page references to the M & R translation]
in any event, if ‘da-sein’ does not refer to a human being; then, ‘a
da-sein’ is not an answer to the question ‘what is a human being?’ or to
its first-person analogue, ‘what am I?’.
so, …
does Heidegger give us a ready-made, official answer to these questions?
does Heidegger prohibit us from asking these questions?
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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