Reply to: Re: Introduction to Heidegger- Dasein
Jan Straathof wrote:
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>>> human being without behaviour or practice does not occur,
>>> behaviour or practice do not exist apart of human being,
>>> but how could Dasein happen "in" human beings whereof
>>> as such no practice nor behaviour have yet been realized ?
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>>It has "always already" happened.
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> "Sie ist das, was die Struktur der Welt, dessen, worin
> Dasein als solches je schon ist, ausmacht." (SuZ:87)
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>but how can Dasein happen if it has "always already" happened ?
>what is it that happens that has always already happened ?
This part of your exchange brought to mind the hermeneutical circle and Nietzsche's Eternal Recurrence ( as well as the timelessly circular utterances of Billy Pilgrim once he's seen the light from Tralfamador). How could Dasein as a condition of possibility NOT have always already happened exactly as it is happening right now? What makes interpretation possible is Dasein as an apriori condition of possibility. Isn't this apriori "conditionality" what consitutes the "fore" of the Forestructure of understanding?
Likewise, I think the practices which make up Dasein's repetoire of ready-to-handedness" are also "conditional," i.e. they exist independent of "ontic" effects. The best example, of course, is rhetoric, which is a capacity for "seeing" the ontic situations in which Dasein finds itself as "conditional," waiting upon the poissibilites for saying in order for persuasion, ands action to take place. But the" situational conditionals" exist as matters for thought independent of the actual persuasive effects of one saying or another. This conditionality is what makes possible Aristotle's theorizing of rhetoric as a practice constituted by the topoi etc. possible.
>if Dasein is a continuous happening, then there is no beginning
>or end to Dasein, but Dasein without birth and death does not
>occur.
Of course, but it is not "ontic" birth and death," actual being born and dying, which interests Heidgger, but rather how birth and death are given to Dasein to think as conditions of possibility? ( I mean to phrase that as a question, but I have to go and don't have time to fix it right now)
Allen
Allen Scult
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