Okay, after you have accomplished this task please come back and note for us the extent to which your new understanding of both Heidegger and Dasein has impacted the life that you actually live.
In particular relating to two things:
1] the manner in which your new understanding impacted any particular behaviors you had involving conflicting value judgments as this relates to what you construe “here and now” to be “progressive” behaviors.
2] the manner in which you imagine Heidegger himself might react to the manner in which I construe the meaning of dasein on this thread: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=176529
All I ask here is that you bring your assessment down to earth. As it pertains to a context that most are likely to be familiar with. As this relates to 1] identity 2] conflicting goods and 3] the role of power [politics] in human interaction.
Power embodied in “might makes right” agendas, “right makes might” agendas and/or “moderation, negotiation and compromise” agendas.
Also, how has your reading to date had any practical consequences regarding the manner in which you choose to live your life? Any possibility [in the interim] that you might be willing to focus the beam on actual existential conflicts that you have had, or have come upon “in the news”?
Since you are using the term ‘Dasein’ or ‘dasein’ you need to understand Heidegger’s Being and Time [BT] fully and thoroughly otherwise you are very intellectually dishonest on this issue.
Admittedly, I’m not an authority on the German language but to the best of my knowledge Martin didn’t invent the word “dasein”. He merely insisted on capitalizing it in order to ascribe an “ontic/ontological” meaning “technically” [to a being in time] as a “serious philosopher” in a “philosophical tome”. That infamous didactic/scholastic distinction between the en-soi and the pour-soi. Going all the way back to Plato’s noumenal/phenomenal contraptions.
Also, as I noted above, my interest here revolves around the willingness of those who do claim to “fully and thoroughly” understand what he meant by it, to bring that meaning “out into the world” of actual conflicting human behaviors.
If you have understood Heidegger’s BT you would not have presented your philosophy in terms of Dasein in such a bastardized manner, sick and perverted way you do.
As with Karpel Tunnel on another thread…
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This is bordering on “huffing and puffing”. Making me the issue. You level these charges against me but my chief concern is still the same: bringing your own “epistemology” down to earth and testing it “out in the world” of actual conflicting behaviors.
Instead, you are slipping more and more into a subjunctive reaction that exposes much more about you than about me. Why the sudden outburst of chagrin? Why do you feel it necessary to reconfigure the discussion into an attack on me?[/b]
Why don’t we take this to another thread. Maybe in the “rant” forum?
As for this…
Within the framework of BT, you are living the inauthentic existence of the ontic world which in your case is so messy that it is concealing the true essence of dasein and preventing it from termporalizing temporality ontologically to realize existence’s true potentials and possibilities of positiveness.
I am not going to waste time discussing with you on this. You have to read Heidegger’s Being and Time and understand it fully and thoroughly especially on those very nuanced elements related to ‘death’.
…I’ll leave it to others to decide for themselves the extent to which my arguments here may or may not be deconstructing the Intellectual Contraption that you yourself have constructed “in your head” over the years.
Though, like me, in your own No God world, you still have oblivion to look forward to.
So what’s the point then, to make sure that even after your own particular “I” is on its way back to “star stuff”, you will have created your own collection of Capital Letter Words that will be around long after you – the flesh and blood you – has been obliterated.
Most folks deal with this through God and religion. They “live on” “soulfully” in one or another rendition of the afterlife. But you and I don’t have access to that. So I suspect that psychologically this quest to truly grasp the meaning of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time [on this side of the grave] revolves around…around what exactly?