
Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Two)
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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Being in the World Is a Constitutive State of Being
Dasin's being takes on a definite character as grounded upon that state of being, which we have called being in the world. An interpretation of this constitutive state is needed if we are to set up our analytic of desin correctly. This primary datum must be seen as a whole and cannot be broken down into several parts. But it does not prevent it from having several constitutive items in its structure. Emphasis upon any one of these signifies that the others are emphasized along with it. And that he's going to hae a whold chapter on on what inhood means. We've sort of sketched out that world is not a container. It's not like putting
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