Having some regard for human frailty : on finitude and humanity

In Ingo Farin & Jeff Malpas (eds.), Heidegger and the human. Albany: State University of New York Press. pp. 307-324 (2022)
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As Heidegger presents it in the existential analytic in Being and Time, the primary challenge of being the sort of entity that we are is having the right sort of regard for our frailty. We usually think of human frailties as arising from the vulnerabilities of the body – to injury, sickness, debility, and death. But, for Heidegger, our frailty is not tied to our embodiment, since we are not essentially bodies but instead cases of Dasein, the entity that understands being. The understander of being will be vulnerable in a distinctively existential-ontological way. I argue that our existential-ontological finitude rests not on our human bodies but on our being-amidst-entities and being-with-others, and I suggest that having proper regard for this finitude is what allows us to manifest the very best of our humanity.

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