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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 June 2021
If the old picture is shattered, then we lose our bearings, and the question arises, how do we emerge from this disarray, particularly when there is no longer much sense of disarray, no sense that something is missing.
In Transformations of Mind, I drew on a distinction made by Heidegger between Bildung and Besinnung. He conceived the former, Bildung, as providing an established framework or model of personal and social improvement or development, one that is received without question, so that we know already what counts as wisdom and virtue, for instance, or at least have a received view about the direction in which to proceed. But this is not our situation. We have to reassemble what we can from the fragments as we cast around among the debris. It isn’t even as though we have an independent grasp of what counts as moral improvement outside this framework.
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