PHIL 474 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Dasein, Ontic, Martin Heidegger
12 Jun 2018
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Chapter 1 of Division 2
He’ll clarify the distinction between ontic versus ontological
An ontic approach to death – death as an object, as an objective limit, which encloses
Heidegger has an ontological view of death as a limit, as an end, but it’s not an object or
point
Dying is an action or an activity, which belongs to the Being of Dasein
This is why Dasein can be defined existentially as Being towards death
In this way, Heidegger is saying something quite remarkable: dying is a part of life
Without death, Being wouldn’t be what it is
Being a Being of possibility
Being towards death is itself actually a possibility
What sort of a possibility is it?
What makes it a possibility?
Structure as a possibility
Structures Dasein as possibility
Being towards death will be a key focal point
It’s an aspect of Dasein’s Being – it frees Dasein
Unity of the care structure
What’s another way of saying the unity of the care structure?
The unity of the short-form
The unity of existentiality, facticity, and fallenness (verfallen)
What are the structural conditions that allow Dasein to say, this is what I own?
Authenticity
Dasein isn’t merely an object, as Das Man sees
We flee the self-knowledge that we’re not objects
We’re anxious about ourselves because we’re not objects
We’re the condition of possibility for even making ourselves objects
We flee the freedom we have to pick up definitions
What type of entity are we that can unconceal all that?
If you take the Care structure and so, it’s always ahead of itself
Dasein is an entity that’s always ahead of itself
If the entity, by its constitution, is always ahead of itself, how do you
Our Being is constituted by that being ahead of ourselves
What is that possibility? The grounding condition – Death is the possibility of the end of
all other possibilities
Possibility:
Possibility of impossibility
Death is the possibility of impossibility
Being-towards-Death is the possibility of Dasein’s own impossibility
Possibility of impossibility; Dasein’s own structure
That possibility grounds all other possibilities
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Document Summary
He"ll clarify the distinction between ontic versus ontological. An ontic approach to death death as an object, as an objective limit, which encloses. Heidegger has an ontological view of death as a limit, as an end, but it"s not an object or point. Dying is an action or an activity, which belongs to the being of dasein. This is why dasein can be defined existentially as being towards death. In this way, heidegger is saying something quite remarkable: dying is a part of life. Without death, being wouldn"t be what it is. Being towards death is itself actually a possibility. Being towards death will be a key focal point. It"s an aspect of dasein"s being it frees dasein. The unity of existentiality, facticity, and fallenness (verfallen) Dasein isn"t merely an object, as das man sees. We flee the self-knowledge that we"re not objects. We"re anxious about ourselves because we"re not objects.
