Heidegger S Being and Time

Heidegger’s Being and Time PHIL 572-01 and 472W-01 Spring 2014 Wednesdays 12:15-2:55

Professor: Dr. Charles Don Keyes

College Hall 319 Telephone: (412) 396-6505

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Objectives of the Course

Students are required to study the primary text of assigned parts of Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time. The professor will provide written comments on the Introductions and lectures on selected sections from Divisions One and Two. The course will emphasize Dasein’s fundamental characteristics, care and its relation to temporality, and anticipatory resoluteness. It will also examine Heidegger’s analysis of phenomena such as Dasein’s use of equipment, its relation to another Dasein, fear, anxiety, inauthenticity, and authenticity. Special attention will be given to the following chapters: “Care as the Being of Dasein,” “Dasein’s Authentic Potentiality-For-Being-A-Whole,” and “Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care.”

Focus of the Lectures

The purpose of Heidegger’s phenomenology is the search for ontology, however, the lectures also examine the significance that Being and Time has for current issues in existentialism and social philosophy. For instance, the leveling down of values by Kierkegaard’s anonymous public influences Heidegger’s analysis of everydayness. Some problems of time that belong to everydayness will be elucidated, and so will the call of conscience and resoluteness that point beyond these.

Required Book Martin Heidegger. Being and Time, translated by John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson, San Francisco: Harper, 2008

Recommended Book Martin Heidegger. The Concept of Time, translated by William McNeill, Oxford: Blackwell, 1992

Course Requirements

Term Paper, seminar reports, attendance, and oral participation.

This course satisfies the requirement for contemporary philosophy.