PHIL2005 wk2 Heidegger
Phil. Knowledge ad the knowledge that cmes from the humanities gices us inferior knowl. Because it lacks the objecivity of the sciences. ~
Hermeneutic ~> Heidegger as basis
• How we make sense of the world (interpretation)
Frankfurt
Deconstruction ~> Heidegger as basis
Language of phil since Plato has become rarified and fixed in a very singular way. Heidegger insists on changing the phil lang in order to transform the way in which we see the wprld.
Dasein – there-being
Epistemological approach extricates human subj from world. Heidegger believes this to be impossible – as we are embedded within the world. the being there.
Understanding itself is at the heart of all experience. That is dasein’s fundamental relation to experience is understanding. Interpretation therefore is not just bound up with phil – phil must be centrally bound to interpretation and understanding itself.
Dasein is being-in-the-world.
“understanding in the sense of one possible kind of organising among others (as distinguished for example from explaining) must like explaining be interpreted as an existential deriviative of that primary understading which is one of the primary constituents of the being of the there in general” 9 Being in Time 182)
interpretative character of human existence.
+> we are always transforming and reflecting upon our existence and the world.
⇒ we can respind to changes in the world.
⇒ the possiblities we have for ourselves are limited by the constituents of the world; they are not ascribed by ourselves.
Being-There As Understaning (83)
- truth described as discovery of some fact about the world – Heidegger calls this discoveredness.
Truth -> in what way does truth exist in a world of interpretation???
Antigone: an example in interpretation revealing more about the interpretor than the text.
- multiple interpretations of the world
- creating conflict internal/external
- force of prioritisation of Dasein with their relationship to other Dasein
⇒ influences our understnding of right and wrong
- weaving different hats / role playing
- TRADITION: gender role – religion (interpretation)
- State-of-mind
- Constant change due to people’s actions
Projection: understanding of what is significant.
Two aspects:
1. a context in which the meaning is possible
2. Dasein must itself be invested in those possibilities. Dasein must see those as possibilities for it.
“projecting has nothing to do with comporting onseself toward a plan that has been thought, and in accordance with which Dasein arranges its Being. Dasein has, as Dasein already projected itself; and as long as it is, it is projecting.” (Being in Time 185)
+> in projecting we are our possibilies.
+> meaningfulness is not something that we give to world or an object, rather the world (understood as the totality of possibilities that make up our inhabited environment) supplies the possibilities by which ay object can be meaningful.
Fore-having:
This is to grasp the whole in which any particular object can come to light. It is the totality of possibilities in which objects are.
Fore-sight:
The more defined domain in which we can determe the appropriate way to do something or to point something out.
Fore-conception:
The particular way we concieve something.
*Our understanding can only come about in a web of context, in which we have a fore-having, fore-sight, and fore-conception.
-> these things are running concurrently.
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