Dwelling and
Understanding Speech as a Structural Part of Human Dasein
“Being in the World” is understood
phenomenological sense and does not mean existing spatially in the world. It is
the everydayness of being in the world. Heidegger amplifies this being in the
world with the word, “dwelling”. This dwelling is existential and signifies
resting, contemplating, meditating, observing and realizing a more complete
disclosure of Dasein. One of the outstanding verses in the Book of Psalms is
93:1, “He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most High shall abide under
the shadow of the Almighty. Once again there seems to be a theological
reference and underpinning of the interpretation of the word “dwell”. In the
dwelling place of Dasein, it may be that place where one is in the active
process of “recovering Dasein” from the “they world”. Speech is part of the
unitary structure and fundamental aspect of Dasein. The genuine characteristic
of discourse (speech) is that through it, we return to the things themselves as
we continually understand that language attaches self to others in the world;
and in fact, it presents errors in the past. Dasein needs to have language to
disclose the world. Speech or language has its roots in existential condition
of Dasein’s disclosed-ness and is the mode by which the intelligibility of
Dasein can be communicated
. There is a unique understanding
of speech as it includes hearsay, idle talk and gossip. The result is that
speech does not always result in objective truth being spoken. As speech is
about genuine conversation, it is never false even though it may falsify. It is
deceptive in covering up lying about its own being for idle talk often
disguises itself.
“And their words seemed to them as idle tales
and they believed them not”, Luke 24:11. . “For there must also be heresies
among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you”, 1Cor.
11:19. It appears that idle talk even in the scripture relates that other
Daseins recognize speech as often idle tales and don’t’ believe them; for they
do not recognize the truth in them. Day unto day uttereth speech and night unto
night uttereth knowledge, Ps.19:2. This verse would seem to indicate that with
speech, there is the possibility of truth and knowledge among Dasein and the
capabilities of Dasein through speech.
Speech is structural component in
Dasein and helps it to disclose itself to itself and other Daseins. It may be
postulated as Dasein recovers it self from the “they world and abides in its’
peculiar dwelling place, it is through the analysis of the various levels of
speech, that Dasein is able to reveal itself through authenticity.
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