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Heidegger Flashcards

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what happens in anxiety to us ?

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  • 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
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what is the dasein’ s nothingness?

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  • dasein is no-thing
  • it lacks a fixed essence/identity
  • it creates anxiety in the dasein
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what is the End we call death?

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  • 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”
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what is the inauthentic existence?

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to image ourselves as static entities

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what does it mean for Dasein to be true to itself?

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-Authenticity means affirming one’s mortality. one’s end

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what is care for dasein?

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its means “things that matter to us”

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what essential feature the dasein have with respect to death

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  • it is called “being-towards-death”

- that “certain” possibility (death) is nothingness that defines dasein

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what is the problem with the existential significance of death?

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  • 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)

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what anxiety reveals to a dasein the contingency of the world?

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  • that things could be otherwise

- that everything is possibility+not fixed absolute

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what is death for an individual ?

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  • 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
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what is the objective of Heidegger’ philosophy?

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to remind us of that existential truth

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The concept of falling- present:

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  • 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

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what is the problem with modern mechanical time?

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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)
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what reminds anxiety to dasein?

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  • it reminds us that our mode of being is open +not closed/fixed
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what is an “inauthentic Dasein” ?

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  • 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”
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the past in modern mechanical time? examples:

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(traditions , heritage , customs ,habits, + memories shape inform our option moving forward

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affirming or fleeing death :

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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
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The concept of future- projection:

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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
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the concept of Past- throwness:

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  • 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

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the future in modern mechanical time? :

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the future infuses present with sense of indefiniteness, openness+ uncertainty

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what coincidence in their arguments have Kierkegaard and Heidegger in anxiety?

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  • 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
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the concept of being towards death and Dasein:

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  • 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
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How society affect Das man?

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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
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what argument use the Das-man when fleeing death?

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  • sure “we’re” all going to die, at some point
  • “one” dies, it happens to “them”
  • or blunting the significance of death
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What is Dasein with respect to time?

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Dasein is the unity of past, present, future.

-Dasein finds itself thrown into existence (past), immersed in its current environment (present), while projecting itself onto/into new possibilities (future)

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According to Heidegger and Kierkegaard, what do we feel most anxious about ?

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  • Death
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Explain Dasein and time :

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Dasien mode of existence (its being) is inseparable f/ time

  • our modern concept of time is existentially corrupt (time as categories or units)
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how a Dasein can perceived death?

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  • by perceiving the death of another Dasein

at least the thing:corpse

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what is “they-self” allergic ? , compering to Dasein

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  • To Anxiety - an essential feature of dasein
30
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What isthe of meaning of Dasein?

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Being- there

  • That being (entity) for whom its being (existence ) is always in question
  • Ontological questions
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what is the translation of Das Man?

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  • “they-self (a public self)
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What is being-towards death ?

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-Is the “future” , it is the awareness of mortality

33
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how death must be conceived?

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  • Death must be conceived existentially: Mode of Being
  • not as some thing
  • death is join into the fabric of dasein’s being, inseparable f/ its way of existing

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