User:Emily/Thematic Project/Trimester 03/02

Martin Heidegger
Two observation:

philosophy has attended to all the beings except for what Being itself is (Being and Time, with citation from Plato's Sophist)

the presence of things is not their being, but them interpreted as equipment (according to a particular system of meaning and purpose)

ready to hand --> authentic mode --> oversimplified reducing to possible future usefulness

philosophy and science since ancient Greece --> reduced to things to their presence --> superficial way of understanding them

Franz Brentano's treatise on Aristotle's manifold uses of the word "being" --> what kind of unity underlines this multiplicity of uses --> "history of being"(the history of the forgetting of Being)

Edmund Husserl( largely uninterested in question of philosophical history) -->all that philosophy could and should be is a description of experience ("to the things them selves")

Heidegger --> "intentional" consciousness(according to Husserl)

all experience is grounded in "care" --> basis of "existential analytic" developed in Being and Time

to describe experience properly entails finding the being for whom such a description might matter-->"Dasein", the being for whom Being is a question --> care

Dasein, who finds itself throuwn into the world amidst things and with others --> is thrown into its possibilities, including the possibility and inevitability of one's own mortality.

The marriage of these two observations:

concerned with time