Being and Time mentioned in "Being and Time", has been identified by some with Heidegger's central notion of "Sorge" ("cura", care or concern). However, for Heidegger, "theoretical" knowledge represents only one kind of intentional behaviour, and he asserts that it is grounded in more fundamental modes of behaviour and forms of practical engagement with the surrounding world. Whereas a theoretical understanding of things grasps them according to "presence," for example, this may conceal that our first experience of a being may be in terms of its being "ready-to-hand." Thus, for instance, when someone reaches for a tool such as a hammer, their understanding
John O'Neill (philosopher) to be" the good." John O'Neill (philosopher) John O'Neill is a philosopher. He is professor of Political Economy at the University of Manchester. John O'Neill held the post of professor of philosophy at Lancaster University. Previously, he was on the faculty of the University of Sussex and the University of Wales. Books Journal articles Mark Peacock wrote that in "The Market: Ethics, Knowledge and Politics" "O'Neill defends an Aristotelian perfectionism which allows for a plurality of goods pursued for their own sake...The argument is sound, but does not answer the liberal objection to Aristotle that individuals must be allowed to