Literature Review - Introduction to Heidegger

Wheeler, M. (2011, October 12). Martin Heidegger. Retrieved from https:// plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/

The reading into phenomenology* was enlightening and insightful, it connected to many things that were already in me. Heidegger’s Dasien (Being - having to be open and resolute), his take on the relationship with the world and how we experience was almost a ‘how to’ for J. Krishnamurti’s direct hitting; just be aware and everything else will sort itself out. Breaking it down to 3 encounters, Heidegger opens it up for action: readiness to hand (no subject and no object just experience), presence at hand (object explains the subject) and unready to hand (broken and therefore makes the subject become aware of the object as separate from it)

Dasien is the central theme - daises is you, me everyone as individual beings but not together as Beings. Being from a human space not an ethereal space which most of the traditional philosophers took it to. But if you look at theosophy, they talk about humans as godly Beings-in-the-making. Dasein is be here, presence, often translated to existence. Dasein stands ‘out’ to observe itself, has an openness to Being. Sound familiar? The observer (consciousness) and the observed (what is) and learning insight from what is - hammering of JK!

The biggest question of Heidegger - what does it mean to exist? And the answer, in the most roundabout lyrical way possible - look inward for clarity (Dasien)

So a philosopher as a Dasien (observed) and an interpreter (observer). Dasien as essentially understanding is proximally along side what is understood. (hearing and listening)

CARE -

Throwness - past driven as a dynamic combination of disposition (mood), fascination

Projection - future and understanding of the world. With Authentic (conscience)

Fallen-ness - present and In-Authentic (not in a bad way)

These three got rejigged to - throw-ness, projection and Discourse.

*phenomenology described as theoretical enterprise that takes ordinary experience as a point of departure, but which, through an attentive and sensitive examination of that experience is to reveal “a priori” transcendental conditions that shape and structure it.