Abstract

AINBINDER, Bernardo. Heidegger and the Problem of Life Beyond a Botany of Plants. Prax. filos. [online]. 2012, n.35, pp.211-236. ISSN 0120-4688.

Heidegger's approach to the problem of life is one of the most puzzling and controversial topics of his work. It has been specially criticized the fact that Heidegger, in particular in his existenciary analytic of the Dasein, introduces a gap between the Dasein and the living. Against such readings, I intend to show that the problem of life is crucial to understand not only the path that leads to Being and Time but also some of the central claims of this latter work, specially the methodological privilege of Dasein it departs from. I will claim that Dasein can be methodologically distinguished from the rest of living creatures because it shows eminently the motion that characterizes life and not, as it is usually believed, because it is completely different from life altogether.

Keywords : Life; Motion; Potentiality; self-reference; praxis.

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