From: HealantHenry-AT-aol.com
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 23:40:00 EST
Subject: Re: Method



In a message dated 23/02/2002 11:26:23 PM, crifasi-AT-hotmail.com writes:

<< If our essence 
were an existent, then our fundamental mode of being would NOT be 
being-with.  >>

Go slow here, Anthony; certainly if there were "human nature" even in the 
loose sense, like "common sense," that essence would make being-with a KIND 
of fundamental mode of Dasein. Dasein is that entity for-which human nature 
is shared.

What am I missing? Certainly DesCartes' cogito was seen as a fundamental 
being-with mode: those who think (like us guys), therefore are (like us guys).

What Heidegger founds being-with by, is the temporal background, the totality 
of involvements, the cultural practices, the horizon, the Open, et al. That 
unhandle-able temporal activity Dasein is about in order to care for and/or 
cope with the world, and which we mostly do by falling-in-with (rather than 
authentically)...

Right?
Hen



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