Editing World (section)

=== Eugen Fink ===
"World" is one of the key terms in [[Eugen Fink]]'s philosophy.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Elden |first1=Stuart |title=Eugen Fink and the Question of the World |journal=Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy |date=2008 |volume=5 |pages=48–59 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/ELDEFA}}</ref> He thinks that there is a misguided tendency in western philosophy to understand the world as one enormously big thing containing all the small everyday things we are familiar with.<ref name="Homan">{{cite journal |last1=Homan |first1=Catherine |title=The Play of Ethics in Eugen Fink |journal=Journal of Speculative Philosophy |date=2013 |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=287–296 |doi=10.5325/jspecphil.27.3.0287 |s2cid=142401048 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/HOMTPO-2}}</ref> He sees this view as a form of forgetfulness of the world and tries to oppose it by what he calls the "cosmological difference": the difference between the world and the inner-worldly things it contains.<ref name="Homan"/> On his view, the world is the totality of the inner-worldly things that transcends them.<ref name="Halák2">{{cite journal |last1=Halák |first1=Jan |title=Beyond Things: The Ontological Importance of Play According to Eugen Fink |journal=Journal of the Philosophy of Sport |date=2016 |volume=43 |issue=2 |pages=199–214 |doi=10.1080/00948705.2015.1079133 |s2cid=146382154 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/HALBTT-3}}</ref> It is itself groundless but it provides a ground for things. It therefore cannot be identified with a mere container. Instead, the world gives appearance to inner-worldly things, it provides them with a place, a beginning and an end.<ref name="Homan"/> One difficulty in investigating the world is that we never encounter it since it is not just one more thing that appears to us. This is why Fink uses the notion of play or playing to elucidate the nature of the world.<ref name="Homan"/><ref name="Halák2"/> He sees play as a symbol of the world that is both part of it and that represents it.<ref name="Halák">{{cite journal |last1=Halák |first1=Jan |title=Towards the World: Eugen Fink on the Cosmological Value of Play |journal=Sport, Ethics and Philosophy |date=2015 |volume=9 |issue=4 |pages=401–412 |doi=10.1080/17511321.2015.1130740 |s2cid=146764077 |url=https://philpapers.org/rec/HALTTW-2}}</ref> Play usually comes with a form of imaginary play-world involving various things relevant to the play. But just like the play is more than the imaginary realities appearing in it so the world is more than the actual things appearing in it.<ref name="Homan"/><ref name="Halák"/>