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Martin Heidegger and Ontology
66 concepts · 87 definitions
- affectivity2
- analytic of dasein1
- anguish2
- Befindlichkeit1
- Being2
- being-in-the-world2
- broken tool1
- care2
- chatter1
- choice1
- conscience1
- consciousness3
- Das Man1
- Dasein2
- dereliction1
- duration1
- empiricism1
- error1
- essence1
- eternity1
- existence1
- existential1
- existentiel understanding1
- fact2
- fall2
- fear1
- finitude1
- God1
- handlability1
- history of philosophy1
- idealism1
- inauthenticity1
- inner world1
- inquiry1
- introspection1
- knowledge1
- man1
- Martin Heidegger1
- mood1
- nature1
- nothingness1
- ontology1
- optimism1
- past2
- phenomenology1
- philosophy1
- possibility2
- presence1
- project1
- ready-to-hand1
- reification1
- self-knowledge1
- sentiment1
- soul1
- space1
- spirit1
- subject2
- subjectivity1
- thought1
- time5
- tool2
- transcendence2
- understanding2
- understanding of Being1
- unity1
- world2
Time (n.) in its existential sense inheres in each state — dereliction, fall, project — and is not a container they flow through; clock-time, a succession of moments, is a reification due to the fall.
Time (n.) is not a frame in which human existence is situated; its authentic temporalization is precisely the understanding of being.
Time (n.) is not a property of reality but the very fact of being: to exist is to be temporalized.
Time (n.) is what idealism must evade to make the subject a subject: for Leibniz an obscure perception, for Kant a mask over true subjectivity, for Hegel something spirit is thrust into.
Consciousness (n.) does not first exist and then transcend itself; it transcends itself throughout its existence.
Consciousness (n.) is only an abstraction next to concrete man: illumination arbitrarily cut off from history and existence.
Consciousness (n.) is no longer the starting point; its basis is sought in a more fundamental notion of being — the existence of Dasein.
Anguish (n.) is the mood in which the insignificance, the nothingness, of every object in the world becomes accessible — not inferred, but felt as anguishing.
Anguish (n.) swallows up every thing in the world yet returns Dasein to the world as world — saving it from its dispersion into things and handing it back to itself.
A Fact (n.) of Dasein is not something we stand before — we are this fact, and it is understood from the inside, unlike the alien facts of empiricism.
A Fact (n.) in its most dramatic sense is having been thrown into the world, abandoned and delivered up to oneself; the facts of science are only derivative.
Fall (n.) into everyday life is an inner possibility of authentic existence: Dasein must authentically possess itself in order to be lost.
Fall (n.) or Verfallen is Dasein shunning its authentic existence to understand itself from its tools: it is what it does, the social role it professes.
Understanding (n.) does not calmly register a destiny; qua understanding it creates it.
Understanding (n.) is taking care: to understand being is to exist in such a way that one takes care of one's own existence.
Dasein (n.) does not have possibilities; it is its possibilities — a structure inconceivable in the world of things.
Dasein (n.) means "being right-there," a verb rather than a noun, because each element of man's essence is a way of existing, of being situated there.
A Tool (n.) cannot be revealed by even the most penetrating contemplative gaze; only handling it gives access to it.
A Tool (n.) is never a separate entity: it is always "in view of" something, in tandem with other tools, and exists most truly when it recedes into its function.
Affectivity (n.) is not a sign or symptom of our existence; it is that existence itself.
Affectivity (n.) always points two ways — toward what one fears or enjoys, and back toward oneself, as the reflexive grammar of being delighted or frightened betrays.
Being (n.) is not an attribute of a be-ing — and its meaning, long declared undefinable because too general, is for Heidegger the fundamental problem of philosophy.
Being (n.) is revealed to Dasein not as a concept one contemplates but in an internal striving — the concern Dasein has for its own existence.