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Attunement
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Attunement is the way we find ourselves already situated in a world and affected by it; it discloses how a situation matters. A mood can disclose something without proving an interpretation correct.
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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 4 of 12
How a situation matters to us
For Heidegger, attunement is a way of finding oneself in a situation, and care unites being ahead of oneself, being already in a world and being involved with beings. The lesson separates what a mood discloses from what it proves, and care from kindness.
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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits
Begin with familiar encounters and follow Heidegger’s questions about being, a finite life, truth, art, dwelling and technology. Examine what the arguments explain, what they leave open and how they fare under political and ethical criticism.