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Single Idea 22223

[filed under theme 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 2. Phenomenology ]

Full Idea

Being-in-the-world is a phenomenon of 'care' with a tripartite structure: a) projection towards its possibilities, b) thrownness among those possibilities, so Dasein is not free, and c) fallenness among worldly possibilities, to neglect of its own.

Gist of Idea

Being-in-the-world is projection to possibilities, thrownness among them, and fallenness within them

Source

report of Martin Heidegger (Being and Time [1927]) by John D. Caputo - Heidegger p.227

Book Ref

'A Companion to Continental Philosophy', ed/tr. Critchley,S/Schroeder,W [Blackwell 1999], p.227


A Reaction

Sounds a bit Californian to me. Just living among the world's possibilities is evidently a bad thing, because you could be concentrating on yourself and your own development instead?


The 37 ideas from 'Being and Time'

Heidegger turns to 'Being' to affirm the uniqueness of humans in the world [Heidegger, by Gray]
Being-in-the-world is projection to possibilities, thrownness among them, and fallenness within them [Heidegger, by Caputo]
Heidegger says truth is historical, and never absolute [Heidegger, by Polt]
Reducing being to the study of beings too readily accepts the modern scientific view [Heidegger, by May]
Having thoughts and feelings need engagement in the world [Heidegger, by Wrathall]
Dasein finds itself already amongst others [Heidegger, by Caputo]
Anxiety about death frees me to live my own life [Heidegger, by Wrathall]
Anxiety is the uncanniness felt when constantly fleeing from asserting one's own freedom [Heidegger, by Caputo]
Heidegger says we must either choose an inauthentic hero, or choose yourself as hero [Heidegger, by Critchley]
Dasein is a mode of Being distinguished by concern for its own Being [Heidegger]
Pheomenology seeks things themselves, without empty theories, problems and concepts [Heidegger]
There are no raw sense-data - our experiences are of the sound or colour of something [Heidegger]
For us, Being is constituted by awareness of other sorts of Being [Heidegger]
'Logos' really means 'making something manifest' [Heidegger, by Polt]
Being what it is (essentia) must be conceived in terms of Being (existence) [Heidegger]
If we posit 'I' as the starting point, we miss the mind's phenomenal content [Heidegger]
When Dasein grasps something it exists externally alongside the thing [Heidegger]
Our relationship to a hammer strengthens when we use [Heidegger]
Readiness-to-hand defines things in themselves ontologically [Heidegger]
Heidegger seeks a non-traditional concept of essence as 'essential unfolding' [Heidegger, by Polt]
There is an everyday self, and an authentic self, when it is grasped in its own way [Heidegger]
Moods are more fundamentally revealing than theories - as when fear reveals a threat [Heidegger, by Polt]
Propositions don't provide understanding, because the understanding must come first [Heidegger, by Polt]
Dasein is ahead of itself in the world, and alongside encountered entities [Heidegger]
Anxiety reveals the possibility and individuality of Dasein [Heidegger]
The scandal of philosophy is expecting to prove reality when the prover's Being is vague [Heidegger]
Dasein has the potential to be itself, but must be shown this in the midst of ordinariness [Heidegger]
If we work and play with other people, they are bound to be 'Dasein', intelligent agents [Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
In company with others one's Dasein dissolves, and even the others themselves dissolve [Heidegger]
Everyone is other, and no one is himself [Heidegger]
We do not add value to naked things; its involvement is disclosed in understanding it [Heidegger]
'Dasein' expresses not 'what' the entity is, but its being [Heidegger]
Ontology is possible only as phenomenology [Heidegger]
The word 'dasein' is used to mean 'the manner of Being which man possesses', and also the human creature [Heidegger, by Cooper,DE]
Perceived objects always appear in a context [Heidegger]
'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]