![]() ![]() These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. ![]() Traditional, metaphysical philosophy such as that of Descartes took self, things and other selves (Cogito, extended-things and thinking-things) as already given (i.e., already available) and thus bypassed the fundamental structure of the human Being that is being-in-the-world. Without the mediation of the world (i.e., worldly contextualities) the human being can neither understand itself, nor other persons nor anything at all. He points out that metaphysical philosophizing in the West historically failed to consider this fundamental aspect of the Being of the human being that is, the human being first finds itself in a general horizon called the world and only secondarily deals with what is within the world, that is, self, things and people. In Being and Time, 1 which is the major work of the early phase of his writings, Heidegger explores what he calls being-in-the-world of Dasein (i.e., “there-being”, a new designation for “human being”). ![]()
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