Care

Sorge

Dasein is never a neutral onlooker; it is always concerned about, and busy with, things and others in its world.

The 3 claims that turn on it

In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.

Lecture 12Heideggerean Existentialism

Dasein is no detached observer. It is always already being-in-the-world: doing things, caring about things, alongside other beings, with no outside position to withdraw to.

Put simply Heidegger: we are never detached observers. We are always already "in the world": doing things, caring about things, living among others, with nowhere outside to step back to.

HeideggerL12 · 46:01

Husserl's transcendental ego is wholly transparent to itself; Dasein never is. Forever up to something, evading something, tempted toward inauthenticity, it stays partly hidden from itself, closer to Freud.

Put simply Husserl's pure self can see all of itself clearly. Heidegger's human being never can. Always busy with something, dodging something, tempted to follow the crowd, it stays partly hidden from itself. In this Heidegger is closer to Freud.

Lecture 14The Frankfurt School

HorkheimerL14 · 24:27

Heidegger's notion of care applies to social inquiry: we are already inside the world and it matters to us, so no neutral, detached, scientific stance toward it exists.

Put simply Horkheimer borrows Heidegger's idea of "care": we are already inside the world and it matters to us. So nobody can study society from a neutral, detached, scientific distance.

In the text In his 1931 inaugural lecture at the Institute for Social Research, Horkheimer describes Being and Time as a work that "radically rejects any aspiration to being a social philosophy."

How these claims connect

1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.

Horkheimer borrows from Heidegger

HeideggerDasein is no detached observer. It is always already being-in-the-world: doing things, caring about things, alongside other beings, with no outside position to withdraw to. L12 · 24:14

HorkheimerHeidegger's notion of care applies to social inquiry: we are already inside the world and it matters to us, so no neutral, detached, scientific stance toward it exists. L14 · 24:27

Takes "care": we are always already in the world, with no neutral standpoint

The questions it belongs to

Throughlines that pass through one of these claims.

1 of its claims

Is the self transparent to itself?

Related terms

Terms that appear in the same claims.

In-der-Welt-Sein / immer schon

being-in-the-world / always alreadyDasein is never outside the world looking in; it is always already involved in it, using things and living among others.

Mitsein / Mitwelt

Being-with (Mitsein, Mitwelt)Dasein's world is always shared: to be in the world is to be with other beings, not a solitary subject.

Dasein

Dasein (being-there)Heidegger's word for human existence, replacing "subject" and "consciousness": the entity for whom its own being is at issue.

maîtres du soupçon

masters of suspicionPaul Ricoeur's name for Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, who treat conscious self-understanding as a mask for hidden forces. In the lecture, Shore also counts Heidegger among them.

transzendentales Ich / empirisches Ich

transcendental ego vs. empirical egoThe empirical ego is the contingent, worldly self with its own history. The transcendental ego is the pure subject left after the epoché, the source of all sense the world has for me. In the lecture, a universal "I-ness" in everyone.