Martin Heidegger constructed new words to express his philosophy…

Martin Heidegger constructed new words to express his philosophy…

Martin Heidegger constructed new words to express his philosophy which

focuses on Dasein. The word may seem mysterious to us, but it is simply the German word, das sein, or Being. Heidegger uses the following words to express his vision of Being: Being-in-the world; present-at-hand; and ready-to-hand. He uses these terms to illustrate the world and our activities in it in a dramatically new way–a way which he says is closer to reality than the way we usually think. Heidegger is a difficult philosopher to understand, but we can make an attempt at it by first, explaining the terms he uses, and second, seeing how those terms relate to his discussion of everyday objects, in his case a hammer.

Heidegger uses the method of phenomenology to help him with this question. So begin by explaining what phenomenology is. Continue with a discussion of “Being-in-the-World” which explains his conception of ready-to-hand and his famous example of a hammer. Why does he use an example like that? What is he getting at? Then finally “The ‘Who’ of Dasein.” It is here that he explains the difference between living an authentic or an inauthentic life. Explain what he means about that and “averageness.”
Once you have finished looking at these individual aspects of his thinking, explain your overall impression of what Heidegger has to say.