Heidegger’s Analysis of Dasein from the Perspective of Education

Abstract

Having considered in the context of educational subject, Heidegger's «existential analytic of Dasein» indicates that the epistemological issue of explanation is changing to the existential issue of understanding in Heidegger's ontology. Therefore Heidegger considers «education» in the sense of existential relation as the ability of Dasein to reach own being in its genuineness and entirety, which Dasein always anticipates in understanding. On this basis Heidegger defines education as transcending being, which he names «openness», similarly to Scheler.

Keywords

• Dasein
• existence
• being
• transcendence
• education
• cognition
• knowledge
• understanding
• ontology
• transcendentalism
• hermeneutics
• Heidegger
• Scheler