erlebnis - ehrfahrung

is a distinction referring to two modes of experience. Ehrlebnis is 'life experience' and connotes adventure and event. Ehrfahrung, by contrast, suggests a more profound kind of discovery and learning, and also suffering and undergoing.

Erlebnis, translated here as 'subjective exeperience' and later as 'life-experience,' is a term much used by life philosophers such as Dilthey and generally connotes adventure and event. It is employed somewhat pejoratively here. The term Erfahrung, which is regularly translated in this volume as 'experience,' connotes discovery and learning, and also suffering and undergoing. Here and subsequently (i.e., 'mere religious experience'). 'mere' is inserted to maintain the distinction between Erlebnis and Erfahrung. (Heidegger 'Age of the World picture' :116n).

erlebnis ehrfahrung, n.All

erlebnis ehrfahrung