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What does Heidegger mean by the "whole of Dasein"/the "totality of Dasein"/ "Being-a-whole" ,etc. in Division 2 of Being and Time?
At the beginning of Division 2, Heidegger motivates his account of death, conscience, and the temporality of care by saying that Division 1 failed to account for the "whole of Dasein" / the &...
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Is asking what being is to make being an entity (*das Seiende*)?
I am reading "Being and Time", and I do not understand this :
-Is asking what being is to make being an entity (das Seiende) ?
Thus : Doesn't what Heidegger is doing consist in making being ...
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Heidegger Being and Time - where does chaos fit in?
Heidegger is at times very critical / skeptical of later generations inheriting and applying the traditional Greek ontological frameworks. Chaos (χάος), as an unordered void state in cosmogonies in ...
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What is 'Being'?
So far, being is what beings do, maybe. What is it? E.g. as the Bishop of Berkeley might align with, (Being & Time, page 61)
Being, as the basic theme of philosophy, is no class or genus of
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Other types of disclosure of Dasein in being-in-the-world?
In Chapter 6 of Being and Time, Heidegger chooses the anxiety as an attunement of Dasein in order to "unlock" its being-in-the-world. What I find is that he misses a discussion of what other ...
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Explanation of Dasein and Da-sein in Heidegger
I am using the translation by Joan Stambaugh. Can someone explain what is meant by "Da-sein", and how does this compares to the more used "Dasein"?
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Do "things" that are present depend on Dasein?
Do "things" that are present depend on Dasein? I have read Being and Time, but a very long time ago. I am not sure if I mean present at hand, but I do mean in general anything that exists in ...
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Meaning of these words in Heidegger's "Being and Time"?
What is the meaning of obstinacy and un-ready-to-hand in this passage from "Being and Time"? I have a general knowledge of Heidegger’s philosophy, but I have problem understanding the ...
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Are physicalists at all in agreement what happens to conciousness if the rate of time is changed?
For the sake of ease of imagination, maybe it's good to use a Machian defintion of time, time is the relative configuration of all physical bodies+fields. I also want to be agnostic about the flow of ...
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Is this how the static block universe, arrow of time, and conscious experience hang together?
In the static block universe we posit a view-from-nowhere perspective.
When taking such a vantage, the thermodynamic arrow of time does not establish a preferred ontological direction of time. There ...
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Questions about Reichenbach's Principle and causes
Is "statistical dependences need to be explained causally" an accurate depiction of Reichenbach's Principle? (Rob Spekkens https://youtu.be/n8NRSPCekmI?t=1575)
Does one need to accept this ...
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Heidegger's being-towards-death?
May I have misunderstood Heidegger philosophy, and I've melted up it with psycology, but isn't the being-towards-death, with the authentic Dasein, an anxious way of life?
I mean, in the moment in ...
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So what if the nature of Dasein is Being-in?
I am new to Heidegger. I've just made some preliminary sense of what an existentiale is supposed to be (I am taking it as ontological elements of Dasein's being, core things that are possibility ...
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Are there any philosophers associated with phenomenology and existentialism that argue that death should not matter to an individual?
I have mainly been focussing upon Heidegger in relation to death and the way in which he believes it is of great importance because in order to live authentically one must 'be-towards-death'. surley ...
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How to explain nothingness in Consciousness theory of Tegmark
The hypothesis was first put forward in 2014 by cosmologist and theoretical physicist Max Tegmark from MIT, who proposed that there's a state of matter - just like a solid, liquid, or gas - in which ...
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Does Eternalism imply looping consciousness?
If the idea of Eternalism as expressed by those like J.M.E. McTaggart and Sean Carroll is true (as much of physics seems to suggest), the idea of the present moment being more real than the past or ...
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How does phenomenology deal with time-consciousness？
How does the strict phenomenologist deal with atypical forms of consciousness that an analytical philosopher need only point to brain function to explain? For instance, how does phenomenology deal ...
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Must an analysis of Being precede the positive sciences?
In the first few pages of Being and Time Heidegger writes:
such an inquiry [into foundations]... still needs a guideline... it
remains naive and opaque if... it leaves the meaning of being in
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In Being and Time, was Heidegger doing phenomenology, using the phenomenological reduction?
In Being and Time, was Heidegger doing phenomenology, using the phenomenological reduction? If so, how routinely, or even when?
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How did Heidegger argue for the certainty of death?
How did Heidegger argue for the certainty of death?
I gather that's a component of one characteristic of death, that it's "not to be outstripped". The other component being its indefiniteness, that I ...
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Does anyone consider Being a primitive, unanalyzable, term?
Does anyone say that Being is a primitive, unanalyzable, term?
That probably would make Being and Time the greatest work of nonsense of all time. I certainly feel able to imagine that Being is ...
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Is alienation (Heideggerian) related to assimilation and accommodation?
According to this paper:
Dasein experiences being-in-the-world and thrown-ness with the
disclosure of this state through moods such as angst and boredom, in
which Dasein experiences a sense of ...
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Does the "Temporal" determinateness apply to both temporal and non-temporal entities?
Heidegger wrote in Being and Time that:
In both pre-philosophical and philosophical usage the expression
'termporal' has been pre-empted by the signification we have cited; in
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Why Dasein has only a pre-ontological Being rather than an ontological Being?
In the book Being and Time, Heidegger wrote that:
We have already intimated that Dasein has a pre-ontological Being as
its ontically constitutive state.
It's intuitive to me only when I thought ...
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What other philosophers I read before taking a class on “being and time”
I’ll be taking a class on Heidegger’s Being and time next spring, which would be my first rigorous philosophy class. The class would begin by reading Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations, and then proceed ...
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Introduction to Heidegger
I have not read anything of Martin Heidegger and I am interested in starting. I understand that "Being and Time" can be very difficult, so what would be a good place to start? (including ...
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Being alive today: the most improbable coincidence?
Think about it; modern humans have been around for at least a couple hundred thousand years.
Yet, your mind, your soul, your very awareness, happens to be "alive" today. If time is a flow, moving ...
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Why must everything have an origin, but not an ending?
I came across this thinking today when I was reading some evolutionary biology writings. Human beings tend to accept that everything must be traced back to something else, or an origin, starting point;...
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Is time an absolute physical quantity?
We measure a second as the time taken for some n number of cycles of the radiation that gets an atom of caesium 133 to vibrate between two energy states. Basically we have defined time, more precisely ...
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What is the purpose of a high in terms of it being created or intended by a creator
I Believe God is real, if believing God is real and that he created the universe and everything it it, what is the purpose of a high? (produced by weed or any other drug)
Why would God create a high? ...
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causality violation
Any of you have ever analyzed causality violation: anti-arguments are obvious but I am asking for kind a strong support of this odd logic.
For example: If you don't think or do something today, your ...
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What are some recommendations for guidebooks or companion-books to Heidegger's "Being and Time"?
I'm looking for a guidebook or some other companion to Heidegger's "Being and Time". Ideally, I'd like to find a book that steps through the entire original work, providing summary and background to ...
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Has any philosopher stated that time and space begin in the present moment, and then become the fixed state we observe in the past? [closed]
We have a cultural bias based on the arrow of time that strongly implies a lack of free will, and a high probability of a pre-existing future.
I'm interested in finding prior thinking based on the ...
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what is the concept behind time machine? [closed]
Now we have heard time-machine and time travelling so many times but we have never found an implemented machine/way for practical use.
But time-machine can never be a reality as per the following ...
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Does Dasein "relate" to its own death?
In Dasein’s public way of interpreting, it is said that “one dies”
because everyone else and oneself can talk himself into saying that
‘in no case is it I myself’, for this ‘one’ it is the ‘nobody’...
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Can there be a clear notion of action that isn't embedded in ontologically static referents?
The common sense understanding of action is causal, i.e. action is some change between being in condition A to being in condition B. The two static conditions of being allow people to differentiate ...
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What is time for Bergson? And how is it different from duration?
I stumbled across references to Bergson while reading Photography, Cinema, Memory: The Crystal Image of Time.
I started reading "Bergson's Conception of Duration" in The Philosophical Review to ...
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Is there a better answer to this argument claiming the impossibility of time extending infinitely into the past?
My friend claimed that time cannot extend infinitely into the past. He explained:
"If an event A will happen in 10 years, when do you expect it to happen? In 10 years. But if event A (such as the ...
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Can we fit the worldhood of the world in the world we have in common?
Is 'world' perhaps a characteristic of Dasein's Being ? And in that
case, does every Dasein 'proximally' have its world ? Does not 'world'
thus become something 'subjective' ? How, then, can ...
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How does Heidegger characterise inauthentic being toward death?
I'm not interested in the hermeneutic / philosophical niceties, but a specific phrase in Being and Time, that I can't find.
I thought he made two notes side by side, on inauthentic then authentic ...
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Did Adorno retain anything from Heidegger's Being and Time?
I've read a little of Adorno, it's particularly slow work though. I had a look at (the poet) Rilke's elegies, which Wikipedia added the following to [from Adorno's book The Jargon of Authenticity]
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Sources for the threefold structure of the act of questioning in Being and Time
In section 2 of Being and Time, Heidegger discusses "what belongs to a question in general". In particular, he writes (transl. by Joan Stambaugh)
Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes ...
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Can we intend anything that exists and must it exist partly in that intention
Can we intend anything, even nothingness, or my own death, or an empty world?
And if so do these things exist in their intention, as something interior to the thought about them?
I ask because it ...
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