Date of Award
3-1970
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Philosophy
Supervisor
John Meyer
Language
English
Abstract
The thesis shows how "language" is relevant to Heidegger's overall ontological project in Being and Time through an investigation of "significance" as it is founded in everyday things which are ready-to-hand, and "Being in the truth", as it is shown in the Existentiales: "mood", "discourse" , and "understanding". It considers what Heidegger thinks is implied by an Husserlian approach to language, if his own views on the reductions are adopted. The view is ,that, even more basically than being communication, the essence of language is articulation. Truth is taken to be disclosedness. Heidegger's temporal account of language based upon the structures of lived experience is also shown to be a fully temporal (and non-technological) approach to Being problematics.
Recommended Citation
Hicks, Russell John Thomas Beare, "The Problem of Language in Being and Time" (1970). Open Access Dissertations and Theses. Paper 5787.
http://digitalcommons.mcmaster.ca/opendissertations/5787
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