Single Idea 22164

[catalogued under 15. Nature of Minds / A. Nature of Mind / 6. Anti-Individualism]

Full Idea

When Dasein directs itself towards something and grasps it, it does not somehow first get out of an inner sphere in which it has been proximally encapsulated, but its primary kind of Being is such that it is always 'outside' alongside entities.

Gist of Idea

When Dasein grasps something it exists externally alongside the thing

Source

Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], I.2.13)

Book Reference

Heidegger,Martin: 'Being and Time' [Blackwell 1962], p.89


A Reaction

This is the first plausible fruit of phenomenology I have been able to discover. Analysing the passive mind is not very promising, but seeing what happens when we become more proactive is revealing.