Questions tagged [heidegger]
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher
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Is Heidegger's Dasein Free or Destined?
While Heidegger's Dasein seeks to redefine the human subject in terms of being-in-the-world, does he fully break away from Husserl's subjectivity and lebenswelt?
In his detailed study Not Saved, Peter ...
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Heidegger's Dasein - "Mode of Uncovering"
"By using Dasein as a replacement for 'consciousness' and 'mind,' Heidegger intended to suggest that an individual is in the world in the mode of 'uncovering' and is thus disclosing other ...
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What did Haugeland mean when he said that the grounding of ontical truth can be transcendental only as existential?
This is probably a narrow question, and so it's my job to motivate it. Due to the fact it would be inappropriate to expect many people to have read what I'm referencing, I'll try my best to explain my ...
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Why is the non-aesthetic position on art not absorbed by society?
The rejection of the "aesthetic" view on art has been around for a very long time.
Off the top of my head, there's at least Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art", with rather ...
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The meaning of "beings as a whole" for Heidegger
I am reading a secondary source on Heidegger's theory of truth and the phrases "being as a whole" and "beings as a whole" are appearing repeatedly. At first I thought this meant ...
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What is beyond time? [closed]
In asking this question many people seemed to think I was talking about time before the big bang. While there are similarities, this is not what I mean.
In quantum mechanics it has been found that ...
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Is the discussion of truth and perception circular in reasoning?
Can the cliche, "Perception is reality" be incorrect in that (objective) reality is a version of the (subjective) truth, and this version of truth is a form of perception?
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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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Has anyone studied the beings of logic from Heidegger's "Time & being" perspective?
The nature of the word 'logic' differs according to the context where it is used (i.e., Aristotle and Socrates, boolean algebra, symbolic logic, propositional logic, etc.)
Has any philosopher focussed ...
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How would Heidegger criticize Descartes' melting candle analogy?
I've recently finished reading Being and Time and have attempted to supplement my understanding with different takes on the piece. One interesting angle that I've mused upon myself but haven't seen in ...
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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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Questions on Phenomenology
This is from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/#DiscPhen
Section 4 paragraph 9
One of Heidegger’s most innovative ideas was his conception of the “ground��� of being, looking to modes of ...
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Does "Being-with-others" have an antonym?
Does "Being-with-others" have an antonym?
If I, you or it did not have "Being-with-others" then what would that be? Just to illustrate what the phrase can mean, here's two quotes ...
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HEIDEGGER SCHOLARS NOMENCLATURE PUZZLING
Heideggerian scholars keep utilizing the phrase "background practices" as a substitute or equivalent for being.
Background practices are things like instinctive social behavior that is ...
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