What Heidegger Means by Being-in-the-World

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Philosophy

 

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Ernest S

 

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February 2, 2016

 

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University

 

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By using the expression Dasein, Heidegger called attention to the fact that a human being cannot be taken into account except as being an existent in the middle of a world amongst other things (Warnock 1970), that Dasein is ?to be there' and ?there' is the world. To be human is to be fixed, embedded and immersed in the physical, literal, tangible day to day world (Steiner 1978)...
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To be human is to be fixed, embedded and immersed in the physical, literal, tangible day to day world (Steiner 1978). The purpose of this paper is to offer an explanation of what Heidegger meant by ?Being-in-the-world'. Heidegger was concerned that philosophy should be capable of telling us the meaning of Being, of the where and what Dasein is...
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