“Related to the concepts of
‘Ready-to-hand’ and ‘Present-to-hand’ are the concepts of ‘authentic’ and
‘inauthentic’ being. For Heidegger, ‘authentic’ being comes about through
experiencing the world as ready-to-hand in its firstness, its primary
authentically disclosed state in a direct one to one relationship with a natural
environment without any mediation. ‘Inauthentic’ being then, for Heidegger, is
the experience of being-in-the-world that is predominantly based on being
thrown into a prescribed world; i.e., it is an experience of living in a
media-saturated world where most of our experiences are second hand. Both
‘authentic’ and ‘inauthentic’ experiences can occur in relation to both
ready-to-hand and present-to-hand modes of being. That is, we can experience
the natural world and the mediated world from the perspective of doing things
with it or thinking about it.” (p136)
Annotation
An individual absorbs new knowledge from a
variety of authentic (direct) and inauthentic (mediated) sources
throughout their life. This impacts on an individual’s interpretation at any time (Bohman, 1991, p140), and explain aspects of deviation of interpretation when compared
to the collective in a hermeneutic
circle.
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