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Existential temporality

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Existential temporality treats future, having-been and present as the unity of care. They are not three positions on a clock, and not other names for retention and protention.

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  • Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 7 of 12

    Living from a past toward a future

    Heidegger finds the unity of care in temporality and moves from inherited possibilities to a people’s destiny. What does that move leave ethically unjustified?

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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.