Embodying Da-sein in ethical life: the redeeming of Heidegger's pre-ontological experience.
Why retrieve the body's pre-ontological understanding-of-being? This essay is about the process of embodying an appropriately ontological experience and understanding of being. In his Introduction to Being and Time, Heidegger introduces the concept of a pre-ontological understanding-of-being, deploy...
| Publicado en: | Continental Philosophy Review Vol. 58; no. 3; pp. 313 - 354 |
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