The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast Ep. 297: Heidegger on the Human Condition (Part Two)
Jul 18, 2022
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Being-in-the-World Explained
- Being-in-the-world is a unitary phenomenon with inseparable elements.
- The world is not a container but the background context of our experience and actions.
Only Conscious Beings Truly 'Touch'
- Objects cannot truly 'touch' each other as that presupposes encounterability tied to conscious beings.
- Only Dasein can 'touch' as it encounters entities in a world it reveals.
Facticity vs Factuality Differentiated
- Dasein can be understood as objectively present but that presence (facticity) differs ontologically from mere factuality.
- Facticity involves our bound up relation with entities we encounter in the world, highlighting possibilities and destiny.