EXISTENTIALISM:MARTIN

HEIDEGGER

MARTIN HEIDEGGER

• September 1889 – May 1976

• German Philosopher

• “Father of Existential Phenomenology”

• Author of “Sein Und Zeit” or “Being and Time”

PHILOSOPHY:

MAN AS “DASEIN”

Dasein means “being there” in the world.

• Geworfenheit or “Throwness”

• Das Nicht or “The Nothing”

Fundamental Ideas

THREE-FOLD STRUCTURE OF DASEIN

1. State of Being or Mood (Befindlichkeit)

It is a bearing on how we will encounter our environment.

"Mood is the lived expression of the state-of-being."

THREE-FOLD STRUCTURE OF DASEIN

2. Understanding (Verstehen)

It is Dasein projecting on the context of purposes and their interrelation within

which anything derives its meaning.

THREE-FOLD STRUCTURE OF DASEIN

3. Discourse (Rede)

It is something formulated in speech and can be understood and become subject to our mood.

"Discourse is the articulation of intelligibility."

THREE-FOLD STRUCTURE OF DASEIN

4 Structural components of Discourse1. What is spoken of (das Worueber der Rede)

2. What is spoken as such (das Geredete als solches)

3. Communication (Mitteilung)

4. Expression (Ausprechung)

DASEIN

FALLEN DASEIN

1.We have forgotten that we are alive.

2. We have forgotten that all Being is connected.

FALLEN DASEIN

3. We have forgotten the we are free.

• Distentiality• Mediocrity• Publicness

DO THIS. DO THAT

YOU’RE TOO FAT.

YOU’RE TOO SKINNY.

YOU’RE BLACK.

YOU’RE WHITE.

GAY.

FREAK

“Das Gerede”

HEIDEGGERIAN JOURNEY

A journey away from “Uneigentlichkeit” or Inauthenticity to “Eigentlichkeit” or

Authenticity.

A realization and awareness of our own inevitable death when we succumb to “Das

Nichts” or The Nothing.

Q: How we should better lead our lives?

A: We should spend more time in the graveyards.

-Heidegger (1961)

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