Overview
The aim of this week’s guide is to start to tie together the various strands of thinking Heidegger has been spinning out through Being and Time. We will have the complete picture before us very soon.
Chapter VI is the last chapter of Division One, so we should expect some kind of resolution.
The first point to remember is that as being-in-the-world, Dasein is a unity, a whole. We cannot “split the phenomenon” as Heidegger has put it. We cannot separate subject from object, or mind from world.
The primary question in Chapter VI is this:
How is the whole of being-in-the-world to be disclosed?
A secondary question is:
How is it to be defined?
Heidegger’s answer to the first question is found primarily in paragraph 40 of Chapter VI on anxiety (Angst). Heidegger’s answer to the second question is care (Sorge).
In the second half of Chapter VI, Heidegger presents what are essentially to “mini-essays” — self-standing investigations on reality and truth. We will get to that next time. For now…
