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Single Idea 9273
[filed under theme 7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / h. Dasein (being human)
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Full Idea
Heidegger turns to 'Being' for the same reason that Christians turn to God - to affirm the unique place of humans in the world.
Gist of Idea
Heidegger turns to 'Being' to affirm the uniqueness of humans in the world
Source
report of Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927]) by John Gray - Straw Dogs 2.4
Book Ref
Gray,John: 'Straw Dogs' [Granta 2002], p.49
A Reaction
This is the first remark I have encountered that makes sense of Heidegger's Being to me! It places Heidegger as a modernist philosopher, trying to grapple with the decline of religion. I'll stick with Bertrand Russell on that.
The
18 ideas
with the same theme
[being as directly experienced by humanity]:
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8228
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Being is revealed at the point between waking and sleep
[Anon (Cent)]
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12932
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The idea of being must come from our own existence
[Leibniz]
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22025
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Novalis thought self-consciousness cannot disclose 'being', because we are temporal creatures
[Novalis, by Pinkard]
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22772
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Personality overcomes subjective limitations and posits Dasein as its own
[Hegel]
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6926
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The only true being is of the senses, perception, feeling and love
[Feuerbach]
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18315
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We get the concept of 'being' from the concept of the 'ego'
[Nietzsche]
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22211
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As a thing and its perception are separated, two modes of Being emerge
[Husserl]
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20752
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For man, being is not what he is, but what he is going to be
[Ortega y Gassett]
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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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8137
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Dasein is ahead of itself in the world, and alongside encountered entities
[Heidegger]
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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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20745
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'Dasein' expresses not 'what' the entity is, but its being
[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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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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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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22227
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For Sartre there is only being for-itself, or being in-itself (which is beyond experience)
[Sartre, by Daigle]
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