Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 10:31:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: division two, chapter i




On Thu, 20 Jul 1995, David Schenk wrote:

> 
> Now, in connection with the worry I raised about the ontological ground of
> the possibility of shifting from inauthentic to authentic existence and
> vice versa, perhaps I can clarify.  I am not inquiring as to what
> phenomenological experience preciptates such a shift.  I am asking what in
> the ontology of Dasein, what fundamental structure of Dasein, makes such
> shifts possible and _thus_ how they are precipitated.  These shifts are
> manifestly contingent, but the ground of Dasein's authentic and
> inauthentic modes are necessary ontological structures of Dasein.  Surely
> Dasein's ability to exist in either mode at any given time must also be
> grounded in its ontology.  So my question is, what in the ontology of
> Dasein makes possible the existentiell-ontical shifts from one mode to the
> other?  I should think Heidegger owes us an explanation for at least this
> much.  

I am trying to imagine what you're looking for and having trouble.  I
can't identify with your sense of dissatisfaction here, or quest. Are you
imagining that Dasein has a structure like Kant's categories, and that
some contingent event would precipitate moving into another structure? 
Could you elaborate a bit more?  What it is you want from Heidegger here?

..Lois Shawver


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