Heidegger Flashcards
what happens in anxiety to us ?
- the world loses its sense of immediacy+ familiarity
- in anxiety , Dasein becomes most acutely aware of its freedom
- cuz, anxiety distresses us, we try to avoided
what is the dasein’ s nothingness?
- dasein is no-thing
- it lacks a fixed essence/identity
- it creates anxiety in the dasein
what is the End we call death?
- be on the lookout for the ways that we misconstrue death
we might be tempted to think of Dasein’s “end” as a kind of physical limit
- like the end of a road ?
- but in this case the limit does nothing to alter the fdact that the road remains even when it ends
- Dasein’s death means that it is “no longer”
what is the inauthentic existence?
to image ourselves as static entities
what does it mean for Dasein to be true to itself?
-Authenticity means affirming one’s mortality. one’s end
what is care for dasein?
its means “things that matter to us”
what essential feature the dasein have with respect to death
- it is called “being-towards-death”
- that “certain” possibility (death) is nothingness that defines dasein
what is the problem with the existential significance of death?
- the problem is that we have thinking about death AS IF it were a being
(an endd of something , a perisng fruit,a corpe,etc)
what anxiety reveals to a dasein the contingency of the world?
- that things could be otherwise
- that everything is possibility+not fixed absolute
what is death for an individual ?
- it is not an obstacle to my freedom, but its very precondition
- death + (its) awareness set us free from the constrain of immediacy of the world as well as the conformity of they-self
what is the objective of Heidegger’ philosophy?
to remind us of that existential truth
The concept of falling- present:
- Dasein is in a fallen state , immersed in the affairs of this world
- absorbed, fascinated by the entities or tools in its environment
dasein finds itself alongside other beings
what is the problem with modern mechanical time?
modern mechanical time has encouraged us to think about time as series of discrete “now” moments
- presents as “now” moments
- Past as receding “now” moments (past carries forward into the present by informing it)
- Future as “now” moments
(future influence the present by always leaving it incomplete)
what reminds anxiety to dasein?
- it reminds us that our mode of being is open +not closed/fixed
what is an “inauthentic Dasein” ?
- if it overly identifies with the “they-self”,( too munch identification)
- it pretends that “its world” is not to be questioned, that everything is to be done a certain way (ex: social expectations)
- as H. said: We lose ourselves in “idle chatter”
the past in modern mechanical time? examples:
(traditions , heritage , customs ,habits, + memories shape inform our option moving forward
affirming or fleeing death :
dasein cannot outstrip death (not even the possibility of it)
- non-relational: no one can die in my place
- outstripped: can’t catch up
- certain
- indefinite
The concept of future- projection:
Dasein finds itself projected beyond a past + the present
- Uprooted
- not condemned to the past or forever mired in the present
- not just thrown into the world , the roles handed down by tradition- it can also revise its previous perspectives on the past
- possible to reinterpret the world anew, according to new set of possibilities
the concept of Past- throwness:
- Dasein is thrown into existence
- in a world of not own making
the Dasein did not choose to born into any specific (place, community, etc)
-it is always already thrown- implicated in existence
the future in modern mechanical time? :
the future infuses present with sense of indefiniteness, openness+ uncertainty
what coincidence in their arguments have Kierkegaard and Heidegger in anxiety?
- for K. our anxiety is in relation to the great unknown: the Infinite
(also fear in relation to some thing —-but anxiety has no object)
- For H. that unknown is Dasein itself
the concept of being towards death and Dasein:
- dasein is (always) dyeing , f the moment its thrown into existence its world and at some level is aware of that
- dasein is being towards death
- death is not a possibility if not it is a certainty
How society affect Das man?
society :
- delimits our options, otherwise we would be paralyzed with constant decision making
- examples: social conventions, practices, predefined options, etc
- make das man unreflective, conforming to a script/model handed down to us, routine, etc
- to certain extend is necessary
what argument use the Das-man when fleeing death?
- sure “we’re” all going to die, at some point
- “one” dies, it happens to “them”
- or blunting the significance of death
