[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

[Chris Doss]

Aargh. You are missing the whole point. 1) Use is not
an issue. It's not supposed to be useful. 2) Heidegger
is trying to undermine the whole idea underlying the
concepts of the "individual subject," the "mental,"
and "reality." Heidegger is describing the structure
of experience. In actual existence, I have never
experienced myself as an "individual subject" with
some kind of "mental" apparatus that is impinged upon
by "reality." These are concepts that are derived from
lived experience. In actual experience, one never sees
"individual subjects," "minds," or "reality." These
are, again, deivative concepts. In actual life, one
sees oneself surrounded by other beings impregnated
with meaning with which one interacts. That, for
Heidegger, is the basic understanding of the world
from which all others are derived.

--- joanna <123hop at comcast.net> wrote:


> Well, but if phenomenology cannot get bigger than
> the individual 
> subject, then it's not all that useful...is it?
> I mean because the individual subject is a mental
> construct, it is not 
> something given by reality. In reality, there is no
> such thing as an 
> individual subject.
> 
> Joanna
> 
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