Heidegger on "Being-Lonely"
Now, I don't expect everyone unfamiliar with Heidi (as I call him) to get this. But give it a shot! It's actually not that complicated.
Kinda sad, huh?
Being-with is an existential characteristic of Dasein even when factically no Other is present-at-hand or perceived. Even Dasein's Being-alone is Being-with in the world. The Other can be missing only in and for a Being-with. Being-alone is a deficient mode of Being-with; its very possibility is the proof of this. On the other hand, factical Being-alone is not obviated by the occurence of a second example of a human being 'beside' me, or by ten such examples. Even if these and more are present-at-hand, Dasein can still be alone. So Being-with and the facticity of Being with one another are not based on the occurence together of several 'subjects'. Yet Being-alone 'among' many does not mean that with regard to their Being they are merely present-at-hand there alongside us. Even in our Being 'among them' they are there with us; their Dasein-with is encountered in a mode in which they are indifferent and alien.
Kinda sad, huh?
4 Comments:
One problem is the quote presupposes a knowledge of the idea of "Dasein."
Its a neat quote....I still hate Heidegger for being an obscurant! At least Kant felt bad for writing the 1st Critique poorly. I have voiced similar sentiments to the one I got from that quote but I used about 8 less sentences and 10 more words. The Heidegger methodology seems "to be" to dance quickly around any idea as many times as you can without using any words but poorly conjugated forms of "to be," and some conjunctive that does not link to anything! Enjoyed the quote though, may I propose that next time you find a quote that expresses the same idea by either Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, or Shakespeare so it is a little less unpleasant :)
ha that made me laugh out loud! I don't always find him unpleasant, but you are right he is no stylist!
You know, if you count Shakespeare as a philosopher (a complicated issue perhaps. a creator of philosophers? beyond philosophy?) then you have named three of the greatest stylists philosophy has. maybe add hume and schopenahuer and augustine and that's it!
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