Dear micro-philosophers,
Thanks for a great chat last week on sections 4 & 5.
The recording from last week is posted in the paid subscribers chat.
This week we will move confidently into Heidegger’s Introduction II to Being and Time.
This is his “methodological introduction”.
We should expect to learn more about how he plans to investigate the Seinsfrage — the question of the meaning of being.
The answer is through history and phenomenology.
Suggested Reading
Being and Time, Introduction II, sections 6-7A
Notes
Section 5 (The Analysis Of Dasein)
This section was especially difficult, so I want to take a second pass at it with a few notes before moving on to the second introduction and sections 6 & 7.
In order to avoid a kind of dogmatic statement as to what constitutes the meaning of Dasein, the existential analytic must begin from an account of Dasein in its “average everydayness”.
“Everydayness” does not have any pejorative connotation -- it is merely descriptive.
It means that uncritical mode …
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