Concept
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Being-in-the-world
Concept · 2 readings
Being-in-the-world gathers practical involvement, significance and relations to others into a unified account of Dasein. It is not an inner mind that later makes contact with an outside world.
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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 2 of 12
The world in a familiar tool
A tool belongs with materials, a task and a way of living, and a broken or missing tool can reveal those connections. The lesson asks whether practical involvement comes before detached observation.
Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 1 of 12
What are we asking when we ask about being?
Heidegger distinguishes beings from their being and begins with Dasein and its being-in-the-world. The lesson reconstructs his reasons and weighs an objection to the priority he claims.
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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.