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To do what one ought to do: Reconsidering Heidegger's thesis: "the animal is poor in world."

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posted on 2017-05-22, 05:30 authored by Blair McDonald
This essay takes its point of departure from Section 63 of Martin Heidegger’s Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics where, after a remarkable elaboration on the problem of the animal in relation to the question of world, he calls into question the accuracy of maintaining his guiding thesis on the animal: “the animal is poor in world.” Heidegger himself is not only troubled by the manner in which he situates the animal within a duplicitous framework of having and not having world but also by the manner in which he situates the quality of being poor in world as specifically a being deprived of world.

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Publication date

2011

Issue

21

Pages

6-24

Document type

Article

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