Heidegger On What Makes For A Good Friend
Leaping-in, Leaping-ahead, and the importance of playing a supportive role in caring for others.
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In the course of giving his account of intersubjectivity (or the Being-with others of Mitsein), Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) comments on two kinds of concern for the other — a leaping in for and a leaping ahead of the other . The one kind of friend, when confronted with a friend in distress, will leap in for them and take care of things. Although many o…
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