Dasein’s being is constituted by time and place, not universal reason

Evidence

But Heidegger disliked the notion of universal truths or universal humanity, which he considered a fantasy. For him, Dasein is not defined by shared faculties of reason and understanding, as the Enlightenment philosophers thought. Still less is it defined by any kind of transcendent eternal soul, as in religious tradition. We do not exist on a higher, eternal plane at all. Dasein’s Being is local: it has a historical situation, and is constituted in time and place. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 291

Categorization

• DEFINE: Core definition of Dasein as local, historical, temporal — distinguishes Heidegger’s position against both Enlightenment universalism and religious eternal-soul views.
• XREF: This local/situated being connects to the reader’s knowledge of cultural relativism and postmodern critiques of universal Enlightenment subject. — connects to: Heidegger coined Dasein to avoid the assumptions carried by words like mind and consciousness. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 201; Heidegger’s Kehre was a gradual shift from Dasein’s active demands toward receptive waiting — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 579; Dasein’s own Being makes it the privileged starting point of ontology — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 198 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Heidegger coined Dasein to avoid the assumptions carried by words like mind and consciousness. #expands (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 201
• Heidegger’s Kehre was a gradual shift from Dasein’s active demands toward receptive waiting #complicates (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 579