Tag: being
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Why Has Being Become Manifest as a Burden? An Exploration of Anxiety in Being and Time
1. Introductions This essay explores Heidegger’s concept of anxiety in Being and Time and aims to seek clarification for its root cause while answering the question: Why has Being become manifest as a burden? (Heidegger, 1962, p. 173). Section 2 outlines the project of Being and Time, which provides the context for our exploration and…
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The Perceptual Field of Being-in-the-world
In the previous post (Yes or No: Is There an External World?), we are introduced to Heidegger’s notion of Being-in-the-world and have succinctly exhibited the significance of ‘world’ and its constitution. In this post, we shall further clarify the extent of the phenomenality of Being-in-the-world and seek to understand the world of perception as revealed…
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Yes or No: Is There an External World?
As the title suggests, as of recent, I was pressured into giving a categorical answer to what I deem to be a false dichotomy, for reasons that I shall elaborate later. The question was raised by an acquaintance who grew frustrated with my responses when there was an exchange of metaphysical views between us, which…
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Breath by Breath
By Dicson Candra Wijaya25 February, 2023 Being in the world, this world, is an undeniable reality for each and every one of us. For without it, I wouldn’t be writing; nor you, reading; or anybody else who potentially comes across this essay (no matter how remotely). Each of us living, having lived; breathing, having breathed.…
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Rewriting the Significance of Your Being
1. The Problem of Anxiety Red pill, blue pill? Such were the options that Neo received from Morpheus in the hugely acclaimed film The Matrix, as Neo grew bothered with the irregularities that he recently noticed in his life. Taking the blue pill is promised to instantly relieve him of all anxieties, after which he…
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