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Single Idea 18315

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

Full Idea

Being is everywhere thought in, foisted on, as cause; it is only from the conception 'ego' that there follows, derivatively, the concept 'being'.

Gist of Idea

We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego'

Source

Friedrich Nietzsche (Twilight of the Idols [1889], 2.5)

Book Ref

Nietzsche,Friedrich: 'Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1972], p.38


A Reaction

'Being' is such a remote abstraction that I doubt whether we can say anything at all meaningful about where it 'comes from'.

Related Idea

Idea 18314 In language we treat 'ego' as a substance, and it is thus that we create the concept 'thing' [Nietzsche]


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

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