Human activity and inactivity in M. Heidegger’s philosophy

Epistemological studies in Philosophy, Social and Political Sciences 2 (23):250-255 (2013)
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The subject of this article is M. Heidegger’s analysis of the essence and nature of human activity and inactivity in an existential dimension. For the realization of this aim necessarily to execute next goals: 1) analysis of the matter of the notions «activity» and «inactivity» in the context of philosophy by Martin Heidegger; 2) to apply to the analysis of human inactivity and its existential aspects; 3)to demonstrate clearly basics causes and factors of human inactivity. Martin Heidegger had been made the reinterpretation of classical opposition of human activity and inactivity that was explained how contradistinction between practice and contemplation. Martin Heidegger has understanding human activity in existential sense. At first, the philosopher had consider the human activity in close connection with an inactivity; secondly, M. Heidegger had affirm how true human activity the activity of the thought and based on it deed that he has explain how the creative manifestations. Therefore, human activity in Martin Heidegger’s philosophy explain how the realization and actuality of the potentiality, how the manifestation of truth and it coming out from closedness and concealment. In this case the point is that the thought discovering something that show the truth. The reinterpretation of senses of human activity and inactivity and its relationship was realized by M. Heidegger through analyze of humans ways of existence that is that «authentic» and «inauthentic» modes of being. Inauthenticity is characterized by «falling into public» and «forgetting». Where inauthentic existence is lost in the dispersal of making-present, an authentic life is lived as a unified flow characterized by cumulativeness and direction. As projection, Dasein is always already taking some stand on its life by acting in the world. Understood as agency, human existence is ahead of itself in two senses: human competent dealings with familiar situations sketch out a range of possibilities for how things may turn out in the future; each of our actions is contributing to shaping our lives as people of specific sorts. Moreover, M. Heidegger emphasized on existential sense of human inactivity that he has explained how a self-alienation, forgetting of being and yourself in average everydayness. Fundamental factors of human existential inactivity are the fright and anxiety about being-inworld that evolves to the falling into public and forgetting of being. This phenomena conduct with different manifestations of passivity – the thoughtlessness, preoccupation, boredom, apathy and perpetual consumption. The activity in existence sense is the thought about being, the existence by being and creative doing.

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