A Study on the Sense of Understanding in Terms of Existentialism

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10.2991/hss-26.2016.58How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Investigation, Dasein, Sense of understanding, Existentialism, State-of- mind.

Abstract

Understanding and state-of-mind must inevitably have their basis of the lifeworld, the world of “being-in-the-world”. As a state-of-mind, understanding is not a transcendental apprehension or comprehension as a gift given by God; it is constructed in the being-in-the-world, formed in a fabric of relationships of the lifeworld. Based upon this being-in-the-world, understanding in its everyday life, proximally and for the most part, does not know the distinction between cognitive subject and cognized objects. An understanding in Heideggerian sense is not necessarily explicit, definite, specific, or thematic. “One determines the nature of entities in their Being without necessarily having the explicit concept of the meaning (understanding; added) of Being at one’s disposal. Otherwise there could have been no ontological knowledge heretofore” (BT, 27). However, this character of an understanding has already played the function of leadership to the being of entities.

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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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