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 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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