Single Idea 22772

[catalogued under 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 Reference

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]