Delphic Podcast by Michael R D James
Jul 19, 2026 · 11 min · 9 segments
History, for Heidegger is related to Time which can be regarded as both actual and potential. The form of our Being-in-the world determines the way in which we express our existence in the realm of…
Michael R. D. JamesHostIn analysing the historicality of Dasein we shall try to show that this entity is not temporal because it stands in history, but that, on the contrary it exists historically and can so exist only because it is temporal in the very basis of its being.
Page 428 Dasein is, of course, embedded in a context of involvements relating to clocks and calendars and this has transformed the time of the world into a temporal continuum.
The political environment of the world that is tending to become more global, is thereby transforming its geography into a spatial continuum with a particular temporal history and a particular temporal future.
In a museum Redditor hand items and equipment are exhibited in the mode of the present at hand.
The world they once belonged to also lies in the past and may be a lost world if we do not know the context of involvements, or form of life, they were a part of.
Without the historizing power of Dasein, these items would remain like pieces of rock from outer space.
Certain more complex entities such as the ruins of ancient temples, however, have a world historical value which require extensive studies if we are to understand their true place in the societies of the time.
If the temple happens to be a work of art as well, with the depth of all great artworks, then the feeling of the temple's beauty may turn into an experience of the sublime.
Otherwise, they will forever have merely a present-at-hand form of existence.
In analysing the historicality of Dasein we shall try to show that this entity is not temporal because it stands in history, but that, on the contrary it exists historically and can so exist only because it is temporal in the very basis of its being.
Page 428 Dasein is, of course, embedded in a context of involvements relating to clocks and calendars and this has transformed the time of the world into a temporal continuum.
The political environment of the world that is tending to become more global, is thereby transforming its geography into a spatial continuum with a particular temporal history and a particular temporal future.
In a museum Redditor hand items and equipment are exhibited in the mode of the present at hand.
The world they once belonged to also lies in the past and may be a lost world if we do not know the context of involvements, or form of life, they were a part of.
Without the historizing power of Dasein, these items would remain like pieces of rock from outer space.
Certain more complex entities such as the ruins of ancient temples, however, have a world historical value which require extensive studies if we are to understand their true place in the societies of the time.
If the temple happens to be a work of art as well, with the depth of all great artworks, then the feeling of the temple's beauty may turn into an experience of the sublime.
Otherwise, they will forever have merely a present-at-hand form of existence.
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