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219. - World (Welt)

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 April 2021

By
Daniel Dahlstrom
Edited by
Mark A. Wrathall
Mark A. Wrathall
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University of Oxford
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The world is the unfolding complex of actual and possible relationships that matter to human beings. In this complex of relationships, human beings essentially find and define themselves, others, and the things around them, while also being defined by the latter. The world is not to be confused with any entity or thing within it. Since taking something to be is typically construed as convertible with taking it to be an entity, Heidegger cautions against claiming that the world is. In order to ward off the possibility of construing the existence (the ontological status) of this complex with that of anything else (especially things, tools, objects within it as well as the subject-matters of any particular science), Heidegger early on coins the neologism “worlding” (welten), to which he frequently has recourse later (GA56/57:73; GA9:164/126; GA7:181/PLT 177; GA12:26/PLT 203; GA5:30f/22f; GA38:168/140).

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The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon , pp. 822 - 829
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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