Heidegger’s Being and Time Project description PHIL 121T: Historical Studies in Existentialism Expository Writing Assignment #2 Altogether, your typed, double-spaced response to the following prompts should total 3-4 pages. An electronic copy of your assignment is due on TurnItIn before the start of class on Thursday, February 20. Please also bring a hard copy to class. 1. Explicate the following passage by addressing the questions given below: Now it is certain that indicating differs in principle from reference as constitutive of equipment; it is just as incontestable that the sign in its turn is related in a peculiar and even distinctive way to the kind of Being which belongs to whatever equipmental totality may be ready-to-hand in the environment, and to its worldly character. In our concernful dealings, sign-equipment gets used in a very special way (79/109-110; translation modified). (a) What does Heidegger mean when he says œindicating differs in principle from reference as constitutive of equipment? (Remember, here, that ˜reference’ translates the term M & R also translate as ˜assignment’.) (b) What does Heidegger mean when he says œ[i]n our concernful dealings, equipment for indicating gets used in a very special way? Explain how Heidegger’s example of using a turn-signal illustrates what he takes to be œspecial about our use of sign-equipment. (c) What does Heidegger mean when he says œthe sign¦is related in a peculiar and distinctive way to the kind of Being which belongs to whatever equipmental totality may be ready-to-hand in the environment, and to its worldly character? Note: If you find it easier to do so, you may address (c) in the context of your response to (b). 2. Explicate the following passage by addressing the questions given below: Dasein is for the sake of the œAnyone in an everyday manner, and the œAnyone Articulates the referential context of significance (129/167; translation modified). (a) What does Heidegger mean when he says that for everyday Dasein ˜the œAnyone Articulates the referential context of significance’? Explain this by exploiting the fact that assignments (references, referrals) can be expressed as norms for œwhat one does. (b) What does Heidegger mean when he says that everyday Dasein is ˜for the sake of the œAnyone’? Explain what this means by describing an example of your own everyday dealing with entities where you are existing ˜for the sake of the œAnyone’. Note: To address (b), you will need to explain what Heidegger means by a œfor the sake of. For help with this, consult Heidegger’s discussion of this concept in §18 (84/116-117) as well as your class notes.