Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Copycats

"But what is the self? The self is a relation that relates itself to itself or is the relation's relating itself to itself in the relation; the self in not the relation but is the relation's relating itself to itself."

-Kierkegaard (via Anti-Climacus), The Sickness Unto Death (1849)

"...we have exhibited as a phenomenon an authentic potentiality-for-Being-a-whole which belongs to Dasein. With this phenomenon we have reached a way of Being of Dasein in which it brings itself to itself and face to face with itself...(In inauthenticity, Dasein) fails to see itself in relation to the kind of Being of that entity which is itself."

-Heidegger, Being and Time (1927)

Thought this was really cool.

1 comment:

  1. we must talk about Kierkegaard as soon as I finish The Sickness Unto Death. I never finished Fear and Trembling, either. will keep working at it and will post on my blog.

    glad to hear you and Caroline are doing so well in Musicianship / Baroque. it's hardly surprising. ; )

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