This is the partially examined life episode 297, part 2.

We've been discussing Heidegger's Being in Time.

We're now up to Chapter 2.

Page 81 in the online version.

We're skipping some.

Being in the world in general is the basic state of design.

Which section?

Page 81 through 86.

I put somebody want to start reading here.

Let's just start at the beginning of section 12 and we can skip through.

In our preparatory discussions, we have brought out some characteristics of being which will

provide us with a steady light for our further investigation.

But which will at the same time become structurally concrete as that investigation continues.

This is all just going to be repeat, repeat, repeat, repeat.

Designs being takes on a definite character as grounded upon that state of being which

we have called being in the world.

An interpretation of this constitutive state is needed if we are to set up our analytic

of design correctly.

The compound expression being in the world indicates in the very way we have coined it

that it stands for a unitary phenomenon.

This primary dot must be seen as a whole.

But while being in the world cannot be broken up into contents which may be pieced together,

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