Mark:
>> question: it seems to me that our sense of individual selfhood is
>> conditioned by our sense of self-within-society.
Erminia:
> For Heidegger the problem concerning the being is not merely a linguistic
> problem but in fact is something that gradually identifies itself with
> linguistic issues. Being is an ontological primumn cognitum, it is
> phenomenologically given and it is not created by language, it pre-exist
> language. What is phenomenologically given can only be understood starting
> from the being itself and therefore pre-exist to any linguistic
> formulation. And yet, we are caught into the necessity to express it
> linguistically.
--As "Being-in-the-world," in fact (the pretext for
"self-within-society"?)--Candice
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