From Plato to Postmodernism (PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS & LECTURES Book 1) by Greg Johnson

Author:Greg Johnson
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Martin Heidegger, Plato, Edmund Husserl, W. B. Yeats, Alexandre Kojève, Ernst Cassirer, Giambattista Vico, Philosophy, Friedrich Nietzsche, nihilism, liberal education, Leo Strauss, postmodernism, Philosophy of culture, Soren Kierkegaard, Albert Camus, Ernst Jünger, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, political philosophy, Aristotle, G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of history
Publisher: Counter-Currents Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2019-09-16T07:00:00+00:00

3. THE HERMENEUTIC CIRCLE IN HEIDEGGER’S BEING & TIME

Heidegger’s purpose in Being and Time43 is to explore the question of the sense (Sinn) of Being (Sein). By “Being” Heidegger means the meaningful presence of beings to a knower. By the “sense of Being,” Heidegger refers to the meaningful presence of meaning itself. The “sense” of Being has nothing to do with sense perception, but rather sense and nonsense, the whole realm of meaning. The sense of Being is what makes it possible for us to think about the meaningful presence of beings, the fact that we experience a world of meaning rather than a meaningless assemblage of mere things. So for Heidegger, there are things (beings), the meaningful presence of beings (Being), and the meaningful presence of meaning itself (the sense of Being).

Meaning is not just the meaning of things, it is also meaning to a knower, which Heidegger calls Dasein. Dasein is a German word for existence, but Heidegger hears it as a compound of da (here and there, in the sense of location) and Sein (Being). Thus Heidegger does not speak of the human subject or consciousness. Instead, he speaks of Dasein, the “place” or “location” where beings become meaningful.

For Heidegger, Dasein and Sein, man and meaning, have a reciprocal relationship. There cannot be man without meaning, or meaning without man. Because man and meaning, Dasein and Being, belong together, it is natural to employ our knowledge of who we are in order to understand the sense of Being:

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