Questions tagged [being-and-time]
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Being alive today: the most improbable coincidence?
Think about it; modern humans have been around for at least a couple hundred thousand years.
Yet, your mind, your soul, your very awareness, happens to be "alive" today. If time is a flow, moving forward, and there's really only "now", isn't it an…
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What other philosophers I read before taking a class on “being and time”
I’ll be taking a class on Heidegger’s Being and time next spring, which would be my first rigorous philosophy class. The class would begin by reading Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations, and then proceed to Being and Time. The followings are the…
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What is time for Bergson? And how is it different from duration?
I stumbled across references to Bergson while reading Photography, Cinema, Memory: The Crystal Image of Time.
I started reading "Bergson's Conception of Duration" in The Philosophical Review to learn more. This is quote from that article:
One of…
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Meaning of these words in Heidegger's "Being and Time"?
What is the meaning of obstinacy and un-ready-to-hand in this passage from "Being and Time"? I have a general knowledge of Heidegger’s philosophy, but I have problem understanding the meaning of those words. Can ‘ready-to-hand’ be taken most…
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What is the purpose of a high in terms of it being created or intended by a creator
I Believe God is real, if believing God is real and that he created the universe and everything it it, what is the purpose of a high? (produced by weed or any other drug)
Why would God create a high? What benefit does experiencing an odd phenomenon…
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Explanation of Dasein and Da-sein in Heidegger
I am using the translation by Joan Stambaugh. Can someone explain what is meant by "Da-sein", and how does this compares to the more used "Dasein"?
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Does Eternalism imply looping consciousness?
If the idea of Eternalism as expressed by those like J.M.E. McTaggart and Sean Carroll is true (as much of physics seems to suggest), the idea of the present moment being more real than the past or future is just a biological illusion. If that's the…
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What are some recommendations for guidebooks or companion-books to Heidegger's "Being and Time"?
I'm looking for a guidebook or some other companion to Heidegger's "Being and Time". Ideally, I'd like to find a book that steps through the entire original work, providing summary and background to better understand Heidegger's more technical…
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Did Adorno retain anything from Heidegger's Being and Time?
I've read a little of Adorno, it's particularly slow work though. I had a look at (the poet) Rilke's elegies, which Wikipedia added the following to [from Adorno's book The Jargon of Authenticity]
The fact that the neoromantic lyric sometimes…
user6917
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Do "things" that are present depend on Dasein?
Do "things" that are present depend on Dasein? I have read Being and Time, but a very long time ago. I am not sure if I mean present at hand, but I do mean in general anything that exists in the present moment. I am not sure why anyone would claim…
user62727
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How to explain nothingness in Consciousness theory of Tegmark
The hypothesis was first put forward in 2014 by cosmologist and theoretical physicist Max Tegmark from MIT, who proposed that there's a state of matter - just like a solid, liquid, or gas - in which atoms are arranged to process information and give…
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Must an analysis of Being precede the positive sciences?
In the first few pages of Being and Time Heidegger writes:
such an inquiry [into foundations]... still needs a guideline... it
remains naive and opaque if... it leaves the meaning of being in
general undiscussed (p12 SUNY Press).
I could agree…
user38026
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Does anyone consider Being a primitive, unanalyzable, term?
Does anyone say that Being is a primitive, unanalyzable, term?
That probably would make Being and Time the greatest work of nonsense of all time. I certainly feel able to imagine that Being is unanalyzable, even that Being and Time is almost…
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Is alienation (Heideggerian) related to assimilation and accommodation?
According to this paper:
Dasein experiences being-in-the-world and thrown-ness with the
disclosure of this state through moods such as angst and boredom, in
which Dasein experiences a sense of alienation and inauthenticity or
discomfort with…
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Why Dasein has only a pre-ontological Being rather than an ontological Being?
In the book Being and Time, Heidegger wrote that:
We have already intimated that Dasein has a pre-ontological Being as
its ontically constitutive state.
It's intuitive to me only when I thought it is because Dasein is limited in time and energy…
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