PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 85: Martin Heidegger, Friedrich Nietzsche, Rollo May
9 May 2018
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Lecture 85
Binswanger agreed with Heidegger that thrownness places limits on
personal freedom.
o Ground of existence Binswanger’s term for the circumstances into
which a person is thrown and according to which he or she must
make choices. (Also called facticity.)
▪ For Binswanger the circumstances into which one is thrown
determines one’s ground of existence, defined as the
conditions under which one exercises one’s personal
freedom.
o Being-beyond-the-world Binswanger’s term for becoming.
▪ The healthy individual always attempts to transcend what he
or she is.
▪ No matter what a human’s circumstances are, however, he
or she aspires to transcend them—that is, not to be
victimized or controlled by them.
▪ Everyone seeks being-beyond-the-world.
o The Importance of meaning in one’s life.
▪ People may be thrown into negative circumstances such as
poverty, incest, rape, or war, but they need not be
devastated by those experiences.
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