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Single Idea 15576
[filed under theme 9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 1. Essences of Objects
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Full Idea
Heidegger tries to develop a non-traditional concept of essence as 'essential unfolding' ('wesen' as a verb).
Gist of Idea
Heidegger seeks a non-traditional concept of essence as 'essential unfolding'
Source
report of Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927], I.4.27) by Richard Polt - Heidegger: an introduction 3.§25-7
Book Ref
Polt,Richard: 'Heidegger: an introduction' [Routledge 2003], p.64
The
47 ideas
from Martin Heidegger
15571
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The idea of an atemporal realm of validity is as implausible as medieval theology
[Heidegger]
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15581
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Dasein is always only that which it has chosen to be
[Heidegger]
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21952
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Anxiety about death frees me to live my own life
[Heidegger, by Wrathall]
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22224
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Anxiety is the uncanniness felt when constantly fleeing from asserting one's own freedom
[Heidegger, by Caputo]
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20453
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Heidegger says we must either choose an inauthentic hero, or choose yourself as hero
[Heidegger, by Critchley]
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21897
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Reducing being to the study of beings too readily accepts the modern scientific view
[Heidegger, by May]
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21949
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Having thoughts and feelings need engagement in the world
[Heidegger, by Wrathall]
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22222
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Dasein finds itself already amongst others
[Heidegger, by Caputo]
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22223
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Being-in-the-world is projection to possibilities, thrownness among them, and fallenness within them
[Heidegger, by Caputo]
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15569
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Heidegger says truth is historical, and never absolute
[Heidegger, by Polt]
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9273
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Heidegger turns to 'Being' to affirm the uniqueness of humans in the world
[Heidegger, by Gray]
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22157
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Dasein is a mode of Being distinguished by concern for its own Being
[Heidegger]
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22158
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Pheomenology seeks things themselves, without empty theories, problems and concepts
[Heidegger]
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15580
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There are no raw sense-data - our experiences are of the sound or colour of something
[Heidegger]
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15573
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For us, Being is constituted by awareness of other sorts of Being
[Heidegger]
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15574
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'Logos' really means 'making something manifest'
[Heidegger, by Polt]
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15572
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Being what it is (essentia) must be conceived in terms of Being (existence)
[Heidegger]
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22159
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If we posit 'I' as the starting point, we miss the mind's phenomenal content
[Heidegger]
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22164
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When Dasein grasps something it exists externally alongside the thing
[Heidegger]
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22160
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Our relationship to a hammer strengthens when we use
[Heidegger]
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22161
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Readiness-to-hand defines things in themselves ontologically
[Heidegger]
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15576
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Heidegger seeks a non-traditional concept of essence as 'essential unfolding'
[Heidegger, by Polt]
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22162
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There is an everyday self, and an authentic self, when it is grasped in its own way
[Heidegger]
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15577
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Moods are more fundamentally revealing than theories - as when fear reveals a threat
[Heidegger, by Polt]
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15578
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Propositions don't provide understanding, because the understanding must come first
[Heidegger, by Polt]
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8137
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Dasein is ahead of itself in the world, and alongside encountered entities
[Heidegger]
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22165
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Anxiety reveals the possibility and individuality of Dasein
[Heidegger]
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22163
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The scandal of philosophy is expecting to prove reality when the prover's Being is vague
[Heidegger]
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22166
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Dasein has the potential to be itself, but must be shown this in the midst of ordinariness
[Heidegger]
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8136
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If we work and play with other people, they are bound to be 'Dasein', intelligent agents
[Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
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21951
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In company with others one's Dasein dissolves, and even the others themselves dissolve
[Heidegger]
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20114
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Everyone is other, and no one is himself
[Heidegger]
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20748
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We do not add value to naked things; its involvement is disclosed in understanding it
[Heidegger]
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20745
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'Dasein' expresses not 'what' the entity is, but its being
[Heidegger]
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7680
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Ontology is possible only as phenomenology
[Heidegger]
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8134
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The word 'dasein' is used to mean 'the manner of Being which man possesses', and also the human creature
[Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
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20749
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Perceived objects always appear in a context
[Heidegger]
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8135
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'Dasein' is Being which is laid claim to, and which matters to its owner
[Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
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21948
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Dasein is being which can understand itself, and possess itself in a way allowing authenticity
[Heidegger]
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15586
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When philosophy makes itself intelligible, it commits suicide
[Heidegger]
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20767
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Culture is now dominated by boredom, so universal it is unnoticed
[Heidegger, by Aho]
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21953
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For Heidegger there is 'ontic' truth or 'uncoveredness', as in "he is a true friend"
[Heidegger, by Wrathall]
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15584
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I say the manifestation of Being needs humans, and humans only exist as reflected in Being
[Heidegger]
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15582
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Perhaps the aim of philosophy is to abolish sham problems
[Heidegger]
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15579
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My active existence is defined by being able to say 'I can'
[Heidegger]
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15583
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Certainty that I will die is more basic to my existence than the Cogito
[Heidegger]
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15585
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Later Heidegger sees philosophy as more like poetry than like science
[Heidegger, by Polt]
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