![]() ![]() Such moods disclose the human being as thrown into the 'there' of my being-in-the-world. This is another way of approaching his central insight: that we cannot exist independently of our relation to the world and this relationship is a matter of mood and appetite, not rational contemplation. ![]() One of the compelling aspects of Heidegger's work is his attempt to provide a phenomenology of moods, of the affects that make up our everyday life in the world. ![]() Indeed, musicologically, Stimmung is linked to tuning and pitch: one is attuned to the world firstly and mostly through moods. They are rather the fundamental ways in which we are attuned to the world. The passions are not, for Heidegger, psychological colouring for an essentially rational agent. ![]() This is mood is the strong Aristotelian sense of pathos, a passion of the soul or an affect, something befalls us and in which we find ourselves. This 'there' is the Da of Dasein.įurthermore, I am always found in a mood, a Stimmung. OK, it's not particularly elegant, but the thought is the human being is always already found or disclosed somewhere, namely in the 'there' of its being-in-the-world. State of mind is a rather questionable rendering of Befindlichkeit, which William Richardson nicely translates as 'already-having-found-oneself-there-ness'. One cluster contains three concepts: state of mind, mood and thrownness. Heidegger tends to advance his investigation in concept clusters. ![]()
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