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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 12:34:42 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Charles B. Guignon" <cguignon-AT-zoo.uvm.edu>
Subject: Re: Mind & Body, One More Time


Greg and Mike S.:

We need to think about the discussion of mood within the context of
Dasein's existentials as a whole.  Dasein has a circular being.  It is
always thrown (attuned [gestimmt]), and its mood determines its
possibilities of understanding, yet, as understnading, it can take up its
situatedness and reinterpret it though the stance it takes.  This means
that we can reorient ourselves through what we do -- a good, old-fashioned
existentialist idea:  humans are self-constituting beings.

I suspect that the talk of "mastery," "will," and "knowledge" is a
concession to mainstream psychology (perhaps Jaspers?) of his day.  In his
own language, he would say that moods are shaped and transformed through
our interpretations and futural projections.

In BT, anxiety is the ground-mood.  It is anxiety we are evading or
fleeing (because anxiety discloses our own existence -- b-toward-death).
In his lectures of this period, he seems to treat boredom and joy as
ground-moods.  This is confusing to me

I hope this is helpful

Best wishes

Charlie





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