Heidegger and Patočka on the Primacy of Practices and Phenomenological Pragmatism

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Heidegger and Patočka on the Primacy of Practices and Phenomenological Pragmatism
Original language description
In this paper, I will argue that J. Patočka's conception of three movements of human existence can be considered a contribution to the "pragmatic turn" in phenomenology. In order to demonstrate this contribution, I will first recapitulate the context of pragmatic turn, outlining both Heidegger's original position and its consequent pragmatic interpretation offered by H. Dreyfus and other scholars. The core of the pragmatic interpretation is based on a modification of the Primacy of Praxis thesis that can be described as the Primacy of Practices thesis, according to which our background practices, i.e., the 'contingent ways of acting and judging,' operate as a "source" of intelligibility. Based on Patočka's criticisms, I will further argue that Heidegger-inspired pragmatism is hampered by the opposition between authentic and inauthentic disclosure, leading to both the rigidification of everyday practices and rendering authentic disclosure formal and empty. In the final section, I will demonstrate that Patočka's own conception of the three movements of existence can be seen as committed to the Primacy of Practices thesis and that this version of the Primacy of Practice thesis is more acceptable because it does not share the disdainful attitude in regards of the public world.
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Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Publication year
2023
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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