SOC396H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Dover Beach
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Being and time, part 4: thrown into this world by simon critchley. As i already tried to show, heidegger seeks to reawaken perplexity about the question of being, the basic issue of metaphysics. In being and time, he pursues this question through an analysis of the human being or what he calls dasein. The being of dasein is existence, und erstood as average everyday existence or our life in the world, discussed in the last entry. Heidegger gives us a strong clue in division 1, chapter 5 of being and time, which is a long, difficult, but immensely rewarding chapter and where things really begin to get interesting. The central claim of this chapter - which is deepened in the remainder of being and time - is that dasein is thrown projection (dasein ist geworfener entwurf). Heidegger tends to advance his investigation in concept clusters. One cluster contains three concepts: state of mind, mood and thrownness.