What Is Called Thinking?

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What Can We Learn From Mood?

What Can We Learn From Mood?

Heidegger On Reason and Emotion

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Zohar Atkins
Jun 22, 2021
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“To a green thought in a green shade.”—Andrew Marvell

One of Heidegger’s core insights is that we cannot separate mood (Stimmung) and understanding (Verstehen). When we think, we always have an attitude. And when we have an attitude it is because it is accompanied by an implicit take on how things stand.

Heidegger seems to be trodding a middle ground in a…

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