Why Do We Love
TLDR
In this article, it is shown that love is a modification of the existential of disposedness (Befindlichkeit), or an attunement (Stimmung), i.e., a way of Dasein to be attuned to somebody or to something in the world.Abstract:
The purpose of this paper is to answer the question:
why do we love? We think that we love because, as Dasein, we are constituted by ontological-existential modes, which structure us as disclosedness (Erschlossenheit) to being, to others,
and to the world. Our aim is to indicate the Heideggerian concepts of
existential analytic which, for us, are fundamental to grounding love as Dasein’s way of being, i.e., as an
ontological mode of Dasein as existence
and being-in-the-world. Our hypothesis is that love is a modification of the existential of disposedness (Befindlichkeit), or an attunement (Stimmung); i.e., a way of Dasein to be attuned to somebody or to something in the world. In the first part of
this paper, we will show why we can accept love as an existential mode; in the
second part, we will discuss how we can say that love comes from the
existential mode of being-in, of being-with and of the character of
for-the-sake-of (Umwillen).read more
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Love as Attunement
TL;DR: In this paper, it is shown that the copertinence of love (the fundamental disclosedness to the other) and of freedom (the letting-be of the other), together with a modification of the existential of disposedness (Befindlichkeit), expresses the unity and ontological circularity of being-in-the-world.
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Letter on Humanism
TL;DR: Heidegger's reply in letter form to the question posed by Jean Beaufret (Paris), how it would be at all possible, given these new perspectives, to restore a meaning to the word "humanism", represents, despite the occasional nature of its motivation and the informality of its tone, a culminating moment in his development as mentioned in this paper.
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The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude
TL;DR: The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics as discussed by the authors is a collection of Martin Heidegger's collected works that includes an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature.
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History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena
TL;DR: Heidegger's lecture course at the University of Marburg in the summer of 1925, an early version of Being and Time (1927), offers a unique glimpse into the motivations that prompted the writing of this great philosopher's master work and the presuppositions that gave shape to it as mentioned in this paper.