PHI 3377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Martin Heidegger, Dasein
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Knowledge categories things are defined by the properties they possess. When you use a piece of equipment, you are referring it to what it is for. Dasein orders the world around it in terms of its projects. Projection (entwurf) - sketch, blueprint of our future. Kant the mind does not conform to objects, objects conform to the mind. The world of phenomena comes into being through these categories. The human world appears to us as it as though the possibilities of our own being. Care how the world matters to dasein. There is something missing in heidegger"s approach to nature: p. 100 addresses nature in terms of utility and practicality, but not aesthetics (beauty) S29 being there as state of mind. A fundamental component of being is state-of-mind/disposition/mood how one is supposed to be/how one is. Moods don"t uncover, but disclose how things are a reflection of your being.