PHIL 474 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Dasein, Martin Heidegger, Stimming

• School: McGill University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 474
• Professor: R.Philip Buckley

Document Summary

Tuesday march 8th, 2016: the finitude of dasein, the existential constitution of the there of dasein, deepening of analyses, equipmordality, critique, state of mind, mood (stimming) Understanding: existential constitution of the "there", state of mind ( befiudellichkeit), understanding (verstehein), discourse, talking (rede), characteristics, thrownness (genorfenheit), projection (en turf), past, Christian theology as major driving force of west. What actually matters is our after-life: heaven/ hell. Everything else is of a lesser plane that we cannot be sure of. Kant: we are human agents that can be held responsible for our actions. It is we who choose how we ought to live vs laws of reason, logic. All three ideologies imply that humans in some sense, are all contingently related to the world: for heidegger, it makes no sense to talk about humans separate from the context we live in. Unlike kant, does not see the outside world as a "temptation. " Phenomenologically, the above theories have no basis at all.