I always associated "thrownness" with birth. And what's crucial then is that it is completely beyond our control:Gary Childress wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 5:17 pm"Individual circumstances" (what I understand in Heidegger's works as our "thrownness") play an enormous role in who we are and how we comport ourselves. We do have the ability, though, to modify or change our comportment. Mental reality is not 'mechanistic' (at least not in the same simplistic sense that billiard balls moving against each other are). We have many more options than objects in a 3 Dimensional space do.iambiguous wrote: ↑Fri Aug 11, 2023 4:49 pmStill, how are our own personal reactions to that not going to be profoundly embedded in both our individual circumstances and the manner in which I construe dasein here?A good way to explore the feeling of powerlessness is through the work of those who have examined it in great detail. For me the best exemplars of this are Nietzsche and the novelist Franz Kafka. Friedrich Nietzsche is well acquainted with the forces, both internal and external, and thinks that we ought to harness the power of our desires and affirm ourselves by willing to live with dangerous confidence. Kafka, on the other hand, depicts the individual as powerless, weak, and passive, a victim of forces beyond his control.
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Though, sure, given free will as adults, we have the capacity to more or less introspect rigorously as individuals on all of the variables in our lives. Though, further, that's when I suggest that dasein and the Benjamin Button Syndrome come into play:If you were born and raised in a Chinese village in 500 BC, or in a 10th century Viking community or in a 19th century Yanomami village or in a 20th century city in the Soviet Union or in a 21st century American city, how might your value judgments be different?
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