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Ontologia kulturowa: Kulturowość bycia
Cultural Ontology: the Cultural Constitution of Being

Author(s): Barbara Tuchańska
Subject(s): Philosophy
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: Heidegger; being; being-here; culture; the cultural constitution of being; community; the communal constitution of being; history; historicity; meaning; sense; reference; a communal world

Summary/Abstract: Constructing a cultural ontology I reject the primordiality of everydayness, presupposed by Heidegger, in order to reveal the cultural constitution of all ways of being, from everyday life to the most unusual activities of individuals and communities. The cultural constitution of being is displayed with the help of the idea that meanings, i.e., references, senses and values (that are a special type of senses), are structures of all ways of being. In the following exposition the cultural constitution of being is analyzed in its interrelations with the commonality of being, its temporality, and historicity.

  • Issue Year: 2014
  • Issue No: 42
  • Page Range: 262-289
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Polish