comportment

is an implicit openness to the world that continually operates in our habitual dealings with the world such that we are always already dwelling with the extant.

Heidegger introduces the notion of comportment as a meaningful directedness towards the world that is, nevertheless, more primitive than the conceptually structured intentionality of conscious acts, described by Husserl (Heidegger 1982, 64). Comportment is an implicit openness to the world that continually operates in our habitual dealings with the world. As Heidegger puts it, we are 'always already dwelling with the extant'. (internet encylopedia: Phenomenology)

is different from the mechanical behavior of a robot or an insect in that I am directed towards and reveal things under different aspects. The way I go about my business is guided by a non-mental 'towards-which' of my activity.

i am directed towards and reveal things under different aspects. . . . not mental contents (as in husserl) but the way i go about my business is guided by a 'towards-which' of my activity.

is different from the mechanical behavior of a robot or an insect in that if something goes wrong, people and higher animals are startled.

people get started because dasein is always directed toward the future, even when it is not pursuing conscious goals. Dasein is always ahead of itself

is different from the mechanical behavior of a robot or an insect in that if the going gets difficult, we must pay attention and so switch to immediate subject/object intentionality.

(5) if the going gets difficult, we must pay attention and so switch to immediate subject/object intentionality (69)

is different from the mechanical behavior of a robot or an insect in that it manifests circumpspection, a kind of non-mental, non-inner, non-first person , non-private, non-subjective experience, separate from and directed towards nonmental objects.

everyday comportment, while not deliberate action, differs in at least five ways from the mechanical behavior of a robot or an insect: 'but this experience can be characterized only as openness. it is not mental, inner, first-person, private, subjective experience, seperate from and directed towards nonmental objects.

is different from the mechanical behavior of a robot or an insect in that one's comportment manifests dispositions that have been shaped by a vast amount of previous dealings.

in such coping one responds on the basis of a vast past experience of what has happened in previous situations, or more, exactly, one's comportment manifests dispositions that have been shaped by a vast amount of previous dealings

's openness is the condition of possibility of correctness.

(3) "The openness of comportment as the inner condition of the possibility of correctness is grounded in freedom" (123).

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comportment