The Case Against The Cogito
February 26th, 2008, search relatedRelated posts :: The Relationship between Axiom and Translation :: Is Dasein a Reality? :: Heidegger vs Descartes :: Is Dasein a Reality?
Joseph Polanik wrote:
> >jPolanik wrote:
>
> >>so, how do I determine that I am a dasein instead of a mind, or
> >>spirit or soul or a group of neurons or a quantum phenomenon?
>
> >Heidegger gives reasons for thinking that I am a Dasein in B&T. He
> >also gives reasons for thinking I am not an immaterial soul or a
> >group of neurons or a quantum phenomenon in that text.
>
> in an earlier post you referred me to sections 12 and 13 or BaT. in
> these sections Heidegger talks a lot about dasein as
> ‘Being-in-the-world’. now, clearly, the human body is in the world. it
> is a physical object like any other. we eat food and the atoms from the
> food become incorporated into the body. bodily waste products and the
> body itself after its death are recycled by the physical universe into
> other entities.
What you are describing is what Heidegger says he does NOT mean by
Being-in, at SuZ 54. He does not mean a physical thing inside the
physical universe. He calls what he means “Being-alongside,” which he
describes at Suz 54-55.
