SOC461 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Martin Heidegger, Learned Society, Ontic
13 Dec 2016
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Soc 461 – December 6, 2016: Heidegger
1. Relating to things
• Religion
o Believers: Directly engaged with it.
o Theologians: Do not need to practice, want to understand aspects of it. Logically.
o Social theorists: Whether people believe in god is a moot point to their reason for study.
• Art
o Atists: Not tig to eessail egage i atisti philosoph… just doig, dietl.
o Philosophers
o Sociologists
• Making things
o Scientists
o Engineers
o Builders
• How do these assorted groups differ in the sort of attidude they have to these fields?
• How far wouold their actions be conscious and theoretically informed, and how much instinctive
or habitual?
• Which attitudes give the most true knowledge?
1a. The question of being
• )uhade ead-to-had; hads-o: Ho e elate to ou tools in using them – as an
extension of ourselves.
o Piodial – the ordinary everyday way we ourselves are engaged in the world.
• Vohade Peset-at-had; o-had: Theoetial appoah: e stad ak fo the ojets,
to examine them.
o Derivative, secondary: whena mishap forces us out of our normal engaged stance.
• Heidegges otolog eaies diffeet odes of eig: hat eistee does ojet hae fo
us? What is its tue eig?
o Note: Heidegger describes tools as zuhanden – or vorhanden when they break; we are
not zuhanden.
• Our basic (ordinary everyday) way of engagement with the world is hands-on: we are engaged in
it. But modern philosophy and science have wrongly insisted on taking a hands-off approach as
far as possible, and stepping back fo eaig.
1b. The being of entities
• Beig Ho thigs ae
o Thing
▪ Inert, blank object like a stone.
▪ Completely devoid of any signs of human purpose or meaning.
▪ Shoe as a pile of leather, unfit for any purpose we can see.
o Equipment
▪ A tool: something zuhanden.
▪ Its meaning points to the web of purposes it helps us attain.
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Document Summary
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