If I am asked in the framework of Book 1, “Who are you?” I, in
answering, might say “I don’t know who in the world I am.”
Nevertheless there is a sense in which I always know what “I”
refers to and can never not know, even if I have become, e.g.,
amnesiac. Yet in Book 2, “Who are you?” has other senses of
oneself in mind than the non-sortal “myself”. For example, it
might be the pragmatic context, as in a bureaucratic setting; but
“Who are you?” or “Who am I?” might be more anguished and be
rendered by “What sort of person are you?” or “What sort am
I?” Such a question often surfaces in the face of a
“limit-situation”, such as one’s death or in the wake of a
shameful deed where we are compelled to find our “centers”, what
we also will call “Existenz”. “Existenz” here refers to the
center of the person. In the face of the limit-situation one is called
upon to act unconditionally in the determination of oneself and
one’s being in the world. In this Book 2 we discuss chiefly one’s
normative personal-moral identity which stands in contrast to the
transcendental I where one’s non-sortal unique identity is given
from the start. This moral identity requires a unique
self-determination and normative self-constitution which may be
thought of with the help of the metaphor of “vocation”. We will
see that it has especial ties to one’s Existenz as well as to love.
This Book 2 claims that the moral-personal ideal sense of who one is
is linked to the transcendental who through a notion of entelechy. The
person strives to embody the I-ness that one both ineluctably is and
which, however, points to who one is not yet and who one ought to be.
The final two chapters tell a philosophical-theological likely story
of a basic theme of Plotinus: We must learn to honor ourselves because
of our honorable kinship and lineage “Yonder”.
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Book 2: Existenz and Transcendental Phenomenology
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ISBN
9781402091780
Publisert
2020
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Springer
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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