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Single Idea 22772

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

Full Idea

Personality is that which overcomes the limitation of being merely subjective and gives itself reality - or, what amounts to the same thing, to posit that existence [Dasein] as its own.

Gist of Idea

Personality overcomes subjective limitations and posits Dasein as its own

Source

Georg W.F.Hegel (Elements of the Philosophy of Right [1821], 039)

Book Ref

Hegel,Georg W.F.: 'Elements of the Philosophy of Right', ed/tr. Wood,Allen W. [CUP 1991], p.70


A Reaction

This looks like the source for Heidegger's distinctive concept of Dasein. The emphasis in Hegel is on creating it out of subjectivity by an act of choice. For Heidegger Dasein seems to be a primitive concept.

Related Ideas

Idea 22769 The concept of the will is the free will which wills its freedom [Hegel]

Idea 22770 A person is a being which is aware of its own self-directed and free subjectivity [Hegel]


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]