On Heidegger’s Existentialism of Being-in-the-World

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10.2991/hss-26.2016.60How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Worldhood or worldliness, Understanding, Being, Heidegger, Understanding of being .

Abstract

According to Heidegger, our essential character is our existence which is fundamentally characterized by our being-in-the-world, and the term “the world” in the compound expression only belongs to our human beings because it is co-originally set up with an understanding of being of entities within the world. In Heidegger’s words: “What can be meant by describing ‘the world’ as a phenomenon It means to let us see what shows itself in ‘entities’ within the world” (BT, 91; italics added).As far as what has been made clear about an understanding, we know that an understanding is the first ray of light which arises in a relational network to illumine a human being who understands a world, and we also know that the human being who understands exists in his basic state of being-in-the-world.

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© 2016, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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