As existentialia, states-of-mind and understanding characterize the primordial disclosedness of Being-in-the-world. By way of having a mood, Dasein 'sees' possibilities, in terms of which it is. In the projective disclosure of such possibilities, it already has a mood in every case. The projection of its ownmost potentiality-for-Being has been delivered over to the Fact of its thrownnness into the "there". Has not Dasein's Being become more enigmatical now that we have explicated the existential constitution of the Being of the "there" in the sense of thrown projection?Yes, Martin, it certainly has.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Opinion 190: Obvious Questions
Heidegger ends Book One, Section 5 with this query:
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It's a good thing for me that it's a rhetorical question....
ReplyDeleteIt's really the "thrown projection" which seals the deal. Projection which is not thrown is, of course, impossible, and things which are thrown and yet not projected would be absurd. Epiphanies on every page, really. I'm thinking of getting a Heidegger icon.
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