PHL217H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dasein, Scientific Priority, Hermeneutic Circle
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Background: thinks lots of philosophy before him was misguided due to bad emphasis on theoretical ways of being in the world, rather than practical ones, borrows a lot from kierkegaard but didn"t give credit. Joined the nazi party and never actually left, no one really knows why he joined in the first place: claims not to be anti- semitic but talks about "world judaism" and calls jews worldless. These features just show how necessary it is to ask the question again. Fallenness: existence vs readiness to hand vs presence at hand, thrownness, projection, the they, being in the world, being with, hermeneutic circle, ontological difference. It"s the feature that makes sense of it and unites the parts of it like to be in the world. If you didn"t care about anything, nothing would have meaning as a possibility or a constraint or a fellow person.
