Ontological interpretation of Heidegger’s analysis of everyday Dasein and the problem of authentic practice
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https://doi.org/10.33700/1580-7118.26.1.85-107(2024)Keywords:
Dasein, action, communication, temporality, authenticityAbstract
In Heidegger’s Being and Time one can recognize a certain implicit ontology of authentic practice, if we read the fragmentary mentions of practical authenticity tgether with the existetntial hermeneutics of everyday action. The structure of everyday action outlines the meaning of authentic practice in a negative way, which essentially consists in resisting the fallen action, which only seemingly presents itself as such. Autentic practice as inevitabily rooted in a historical context can thus happen only as an interpreative decunstruction of the contemporary life-world conditions of practice. The aim of the article is then to articulate these conditions, both in a purelly structural and temporal manner as guidlines for an authentic practice that recognizes the contemporary conditions of action and confronts them by resisting their pull of fallen throwness. Methodologically I proceed from a strict ontological understanding of Dasein, and accordingly offer an ontological interpretration of everyday Mitsein, as opposed to various conventionalist and pragmatist approaches. In conclusion I argue that such an ontological approach can provide a basic outline of an ontology of authentic practice.
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