The Everyday Life as Basis of Dwelling in Heidegger, Nishida, and Nishitani
- Rebeca Maldonado
Abstract
Both in times of pandemic and in times that we call "normal", daily life is revealed as the basis of dwelling, under the idea that daily life is a constitutive place of the world and of ourselves, therefore its whole existence depends on cultivation and dedication to it. In this way, if we think that the cultivation of daily life is not important, if we think that this is not an important thing and, even worse, that it is something that must be taken for granted, we would throw away everything we have at hand to transform us at every moment. In Being and Time, Heidegger thinks that everyday life is the only possible starting point for the description of Dasein, for me, not only as a place of methodological deployment, but also of dwelling. This idea makes Dasein - that we are ourselves in each one - the possibility of creating and unfolding the world, and it is as inalienable and non-transferable as death itself. For Nishida daily life is the alpha and omega of the world; for Nishitani, the hinge between nirvana and samsara. This article will open a place for Tim Ingold as a thinker of dwelling, who rethinks Heideggerian occupation as skills developed from the perception of the environment. My research proposal on dwelling seeks to invite us to think about the roots of our being-in without ever losing sight of the day to day of daily existence.
Keywords
Being-in, basis of everyday life, action intuition, samsara-in-nirvana, nirvana-in samsara
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