THE TRANSCENDENTAL AND HERMENEUTICAL APPROACHES IN HEIDEGGER’S BEING AND TIME

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2023-9-22

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Demir, Ozan

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My thesis is an inquiry into to what extent Martin Heidegger managed to provide a fundamental ontology in his book Being and Time. My claim is that Being and Time suffers from a tension caused by Heidegger’s preference for both transcendental and hermeneutical methods. On the one hand, he explicates existential structures of Dasein as a transcendental framework that enables us to have an understanding of Being. These structures are thought to be universal, necessary, and static. On the other hand, Heidegger proceeds to provide an analysis of the factical existence of Dasein, which turns out to be thoroughly historical. His analysis of death and conscience clearly show the influence of Christian and modern European thought on his philosophy. While this does not necessarily devalue the work, it creates the risk of taking what is limited in scope, in the sense of belonging to a particular epoch, into a universal and necessary understanding of Being.

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Heidegger, Transcendental, Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, Philosophy of death

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105310

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis