In this paper I am going to examine and discuss Martin Heideggers concept ”Das Man” and the closely related ”Man-Selbst” as they appear in his work Being and Time. My main goal is to argue for a normative understanding of these concepts and the overall theory surrounding them, i.e., argue for a reading in which Being and Time is not understood merely as a descriptive investigation of fundamental-ontological existentials, but also as arguing for a certain way we ought to exist, or rather: arguing for that we ought not to be in the way of ”Man-Selbst.” In order to do this, however, I need to introduce some of the key concepts of the work, such as ”Dasein” and ”In-der-Welt-sein”, and this is what the first part of the paper is dedicated to. In the second part I examine the methodology in Being and Time and how it necessitates a special kind of semantics called "formal indication." In the third part I more closely examine the passages of the work in which the key concepts ”Das Man” and ”Man-Selbst” appear. In the fourth I will lay out my arguments for the normative reading. / <p>Läsår Höstterminen 2018</p>
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:uu-376486 |
| Date | January 2019 |
| Creators | Skog Pirinen, Jim |
| Publisher | Uppsala universitet, Filosofiska institutionen |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | Swedish |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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