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This book provides a systematic reading of Martin Heidegger’s
project of “fundamental ontology,” which he initially presented
in Being and Time (1927) and developed further in his work on Kant.
It shows our understanding of being to be that of a small set of a
priori, temporally inflected, “categorial” forms that
articulate what, how, and whether things can be. As selves bound to
and bounded by the world within which we seek to answer the
question of how to live, we imaginatively generate these forms in
order to open ourselves up to those intra-worldly entities which
determinately instantiate them. This makes us, as selves, the
source and unifying ground of being. But this ground is hidden from
us – until we do fundamental ontology. In showing how Heidegger
develops these ideas, the author challenges key elements of the
anti-Cartesian framework that most readers bring to his texts,
arguing that his Kantian account of being has its roots in the
anti-empiricism and Augustinianism of Descartes, and that his
project relies implicitly on an essentially Cartesian
“meditational” method of reflective self-engagement that allows
being to be brought to light. He also argues against the widespread
tendency to see Heidegger as presenting the basic forms of being as
in any way normative, from which he concludes, partially against
Heidegger himself, that fundamental ontology is, while profound and
worth pursuing for its own sake, inert with respect to the question
of how to live. The Bounds of Self will be of interest to
researchers and advanced students working on Heidegger, Kant,
phenomenology, and existential philosophy.
This book provides a systematic reading of Martin Heidegger's
project of "fundamental ontology," which he initially presented in
Being and Time (1927) and developed further in his work on Kant. It
shows our understanding of being to be that of a small set of a
priori, temporally inflected, "categorial" forms that articulate
what, how, and whether things can be. As selves bound to and
bounded by the world within which we seek to answer the question of
how to live, we imaginatively generate these forms in order to open
ourselves up to those intra-worldly entities which determinately
instantiate them. This makes us, as selves, the source and unifying
ground of being. But this ground is hidden from us - until we do
fundamental ontology. In showing how Heidegger develops these
ideas, the author challenges key elements of the anti-Cartesian
framework that most readers bring to his texts, arguing that his
Kantian account of being has its roots in the anti-empiricism and
Augustinianism of Descartes, and that his project relies implicitly
on an essentially Cartesian "meditational" method of reflective
self-engagement that allows being to be brought to light. He also
argues against the widespread tendency to see Heidegger as
presenting the basic forms of being as in any way normative, from
which he concludes, partially against Heidegger himself, that
fundamental ontology is, while profound and worth pursuing for its
own sake, inert with respect to the question of how to live. The
Bounds of Self will be of interest to researchers and advanced
students working on Heidegger, Kant, phenomenology, and existential
philosophy.
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