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Single Idea 15584

[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human) ]

Full Idea

The fundamental thought of my thinking is precisely that Being, or the manifestation of Being, needs human beings and that, vice versa, human beings are only human beings if they are standing in the manifestation of Being.

Gist of Idea

I say the manifestation of Being needs humans, and humans only exist as reflected in Being

Source

Martin Heidegger (Martin Heidegger in conversation [1969], p.82), quoted by Richard Polt - Heidegger: an introduction 5 'Signs'

Book Ref

Polt,Richard: 'Heidegger: an introduction' [Routledge 2003], p.118

A Reaction

I don't think I understand the second half of this, but I sense some sort of intuition that the consciousness of humans 'enlarges' Being, or bestows an identity on it, or some such thing.

The 18 ideas with the same theme [being as directly experienced by humanity]:

8228 Being is revealed at the point between waking and sleep [Anon (Cent)]
12932 The idea of being must come from our own existence [Leibniz]
22025 Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures [Novalis, by Pinkard]
22772 Personality overcomes subjective limitations and posits Dasein as its own [Hegel]
6926 The only true being is of the senses, perception, feeling and love [Feuerbach]
18315 We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego' [Nietzsche]
22211 As a thing and its perception are separated, two modes of Being emerge [Husserl]
20752 For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be [Ortega y Gassett]
9273 Heidegger turns to 'Being' to affirm the uniqueness of humans in the world [Heidegger, by Gray]
22157 Dasein is a mode of Being distinguished by concern for its own Being [Heidegger]
8137 Dasein is ahead of itself in the world, and alongside encountered entities [Heidegger]
21951 In company with others one's Dasein dissolves, and even the others themselves dissolve [Heidegger]
20745 'Dasein' expresses not 'what' the entity is, but its being [Heidegger]
8134 The word 'dasein' is used to mean 'the manner of Being which man possesses', and also the human creature [Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
8135 'Dasein' is Being which is laid claim to, and which matters to its owner [Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
21948 Dasein is being which can understand itself, and possess itself in a way allowing authenticity [Heidegger]
15584 I say the manifestation of Being needs humans, and humans only exist as reflected in Being [Heidegger]
22227 For Sartre there is only being for-itself, or being in-itself (which is beyond experience) [Sartre, by Daigle]