PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Reason, Martin Heidegger, Active Intellect
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191-196; p. 199 thrownness and facticity; 43 c), pp. Ethics and politics will come later under how best to live?") We are part of nature, partaking in the life of other kinds of living beings by our basic needs, competences and faculties. We are integral parts of the world of substances, having the same ontological form: form and matter, individual substance and species-being like others. One among many kinds of living things, privileged only by having a rational soul (theoretical and practical intellect). Being living, our most basic interest and task is to preserve our lives. As other beings of nature, our natural endowment is meant, and is (partly) geared towards letting us grow into the kind of being that unfolds its natural propensities in the most perfect possible way. (teleology!) This includes, beyond preserving our lives, activity that makes us beautiful and good specimens of our species.
