TY - THES ID - 142816636 TI - Living without a ground : a praxis of being-in-the-world AU - S̆vec, Ondr̆ej AU - Koloskov, Daniil AU - Camilleri, Sylvain AU - UCLouvain. ISP - Institut supérieur de philosophie PY - 2023 PB - Louvain-la-Neuve: UCLouvain, DB - UniCat KW - Phenomenology KW - Pragmatism KW - Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:142816636 AB - The basic goal of the dissertation is to formulate a pragmatic phenomenology, which would rely on the notion of praxis while dealing with the traditional for existential phenomenology goal of arriving at “an understanding of man and the world from any starting point other than that of their ‘facticity.’ (Merleau-Ponty 2002). The dissertation interprets disclosure of the world as a form of praxis based on Heideggerian vocabulary; gaining access to the world is an act that reveals what possibilities of being can the world offer to Dasein, which is understood as nothing but an ecstatic attempt to anchor in the world. The praxis of disclosure is guided by the need to maximize Dasein’s ability-to-be and a constant attempt to increase the ‘disclosing potential’ of particular practices. This starting point reserves a crucial methodological role to the mutuality between Dasein and the world: Dasein does not explain what possibilities of being the world can offer to it and the world cannot explain what possibilities of being Dasein would be able to reveal. We will demonstrate how a systematic emphasis on mutuality leads us towards dispensing with ‘grounds’ of traditional philosophy, i.e., fundamental explainers that are not explained by anything further; we will also show how this emphasis makes it possible to grasp better the agile and fluid nature of human facticity. ER -