Open AccessTHE HEIDEGGERIAN CONCEPT OF DASEIN AND ITS ONTOLOGICAL MODALITY: DAS MAN
Author(s) -
Anna Małecka,
Pìotr Mróz
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
horizon. fenomenologičeskie issledovaniâ
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.174
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 2311-6986
pISSN - 2226-5260
DOI - 10.21638/2226-5260-2021-10-1-45-60
Subject(s) - existentialism , ontic , philosophy , epistemology , prerogative , interpretation (philosophy) , hermeneutics , modality (human–computer interaction) , premise , politics , computer science , linguistics , human–computer interaction , political science , law
The paper presents a non-standard interpretation of the celebrated Heideggerian existential das Man in terms of its oft-underrated unity with Dasein—an entity of a special ontic-ontological prerogative. The present authors intend to highlight this essential theme in terms of the specific unity of Dasein being-in-the world, covering many subsequent and adjacent existentials in the analytics of the Heideggerian existential hermeneutics, especially Mitsein/Mitdasein. Dasein’s existence-essence is based on the structure of possibilities, and hence free, spontaneous choices, while Das Man is a concrete choice of a certain modus of existence rendering—as it were—all other modi invalid and non-operational. Although Heidegger is far from taking up an ethical or moral stance in its traditional understanding, he is quite adamant that the phenomenon of das Man invalidates a truly human project of existing one’s own possibilities—to wit—be oneself (Jemeines).