Original scientific paper

https://doi.org/doi: https://doi.org/10.26362/20240201

The Methodological Significance of Feelings in Martin Heidegger’s Philosophy: Heidegger’s Reconceptualization of Philosophical Knowledge and Truth

Karl Kraatz orcid.org/0000-0001-6957-115X ; School of Philosophy, Zhejiang University

Abstract

This paper examines the methodological significance of feelings and moods in Heidegger’s philosophy, challenging the modern philosophical view that prioritizes cognition over feelings in acquiring knowledge. Heidegger argues that by exploring the disclosive and disruptive qualities of feelings, philosophy can provide
“philosophical knowledge,” which he considers superior to scientific knowledge as it entails knowledge about the world from which science originates. Heidegger’s assertion of the primacy of feelings is based on the notion that only feelings can reveal essential and yet concealed aspects of the correlation between humans and
beings, and that these aspects are crucial for our understanding of the world. This paper will explore these claims by engaging with the strongest critics of Heidegger’s position, namely philosophers of the Neo-Kantian tradition, who claim that he has abandoned philosophy to the arbitrariness and irrationality of mere feelings.

Keywords

epistemology; Martin Heidegger; neo-Kantianism; philosophy of emotions; René Descartes; self-consciousness

Hrčak ID:

323128

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/323128

Publication date:

7.12.2024.

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