PHILOS 1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Martin Heidegger, Summum Bonum
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Aristotle adopts a third person point of view. We are a species being before individuals. We are animals that are a special kind, with a special privilege and burden. We are still unique as a species but so are other species. Each species have their own specific kind of difference. There is not really more to our difference than there are to other differences. Heidegger does not raise us squarely into nature or with a privilege. We are facts of nature that are beings in nature. For heidegger we are not factual but possibility beings. It is a world for us but is also shared with other things. The world is also from a practical point of view of many things at the same time. We have to maintain and assert ourselves in the world. The world provides us the means of things that we want to do or withholds them. Aristotle looks at different things that are called determinants.
