Heidegger

In a message dated 2/24/2008 11:35:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,
jPolanik at nc.rr.com writes:

Heidegger opens BaT (section 9) with “We are ourselves the entities to
be analysed”. if I translate this into the first person, I get something
like “I am this entity I will analyze’ or “I am *this* which I will
analyze”. so I know that I am; but, not yet what I am.

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?

Joe

Good question, more so that self-analysis is impossible
and can only lead to the tautological redundance that comes with dasein. The
‘what’ because ‘other’ is thus obfuscated.
Bernard

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