Chapter IV. "There's Only The Blanket"

Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) develops Husserl's foundations but moves away from The Transcendental Ego .

Martin Heidegger believes "that phenomenological description is never pure but is always based on interpretation" (89). He further explains that "interpretation" is done by those who are present in their "research" and have not "disappeared as cultural beings".

Heidegger believes that "understanding is framed by one's cultural and intellectual tradition" (89). Which I think is an interesting idea and relief that cultural prejudice is an acceptable form of understanding. However, Ferrara writes that this cultural bias makes it impossible for "pure" understanding.

Being and Time
Dr. Ferrara writes that that "standing outside oneself" is the key to being loser to being. Dasein is, "provided to characterize man's existence and to acknowledge that he alone is the being that can pose the question of Being." Within this idea is he defines phenomenology as a "tool" to defining Dasein; this shifts phenomenology in a different direction than Husserl.

Allegory of the Cave, Plato
This metaphor portrays mankind as in a cave of ignorance and outside the cave is the light and the chance to understand. But their backs are on the cave opening but man is forever in a state of "childhood" can only see forwardness, the darkness.


Phainomenon means, "to show itself."
Returning to Dasein: "must allow the thing the "freedom" to show itself, that the "essence" of truth is freedom.



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