Fucking shit man, don't bring that meathead shit in here, please. This is a podcast with a specific focus for people that actually like to think and learn
the thing is... people have thought about this before... This is exactly the ways of thinking that advanced meditators use of self-inquiry when trying to attain enlightenment. It's just the approach is different. Where Heidegger is performing this thought in a philosophical context, Buddhist monks, Hindu monks, etc, have being engaged in this model for millennia. Self inquiry meditation is investigating the "I AM" presence, who is the "I" that is experiencing this. If you can go beyond that you will experience the shift in your perception of life - and it will be an experience not just an intellectual understanding. it requires a lot of discipline to train the mind to get to that level - and you do not have to belong to any faith to do it, they just happened to be doing this for years.
Warmed over Hinduism with accreditation. Typical of all major German philosophers except Schopenauer who called Kant "The Chinaman of Konnigsburg". (Buddhism). Heidegger did not know Being (only intellectually, not existentially). If he knew Being he would meditate and have all his questions answered (happiness--the Laughing Buddha). You don't fear death when meditating. Silly--belief in absolute unfettered freedom (stepping on other people) without Ethics. We are now returning to Ethics/Reason, not Heidegger/Nietzsche/Marx--yesterday's news--we can no longer afford the murder and mayhem of absolute freedom and the absolute state or end of freedom (Marxism)--an idiotic, absurd contradiction. All artists who believe in absolute freedom are Marxists who believe in the absolute state, the corset to relieve the freedom, thus revealing the absolute hoax.
Can you please do a full in depth series on phenomenology? I am a philo major at FSU, and this topic is never touched on, and it would be great to hear lectures on the subjects from you super in depth if possible. Thanks.
Steven, before you, I always had an interest in philosophy and in you I have found my teacher. By listening to your lectures I have learnt so much over time and even found philosophers that I find truly helpful in life such as Deleuze, Hegel, Husserl and now Heidegger. Thanks for all these wonderful insights. You do them so darn well. Yes, I'm a Patreon.
This was wonderful!!! But you did not explain Heidegger's concept of Das Sein (being). Maybe have another lecture Heidegger 2 Also, I was wondering why are you inside if you're an extravert? Are you sick or are you too disappointed with social interaction because the mass majority of people can't think?
Thank you, for being a wonderful teacher. Wise, humble, humorous, open, a drive to share something you hold important and welcome expansion to it. A congenial tone, one that speaks like a valued high school friend...shooting off ideas by the light of the moon. Cool...I'm so happy you are. I started listening to "Up on a Roof" by James Taylor before an episode, then I look out over Lake Constance to the lights of Switzerland across the water, and it's all good. Greetings from Germany everyone, and thank you for all the wisdom each of you gives, all the time...
I dunno if they’re as rigorous in their thought as the people you’ve discussed but I wonder if you’d have anything to say on Simone Weil or Georges Bataille
Thank you for the amazing work, commenting from Spain where me and my class have just debated collectively about heidegger in a lesson. Have reached a far better comprehension of his topics in half an hour here.
Just from listening to part 1, I humbly think you are a brilliant teacher - articulate and able explain a specific concept not as a standalone, but as it relates to other concepts in philosophy very well without losing focus. This helps me understand the newly introduced concept contextually and relationally. I look forward to part 2. Thanks.
Thanks for posting these. I have been wanting to learn philosophy but been intimidated by how big the task seems to do so. This seems like a really approachable starting place.
☆ If you really want to challenge normies at a party, just mention flat earth. However, if your looking for a debate with those normies, you should probably just get another beer. And if you don't have a bottle opener, getting that beer open will be a much more fulfilling challenge anyway, plus, the reward is a beer!
What would the world and humanity look like now if there had been a work similar to Sein und Zeit written by Plato instead? Well, that is a nice thought-experiment in its own self-contained bubble but not that relevant a question in all fairness of actual factuality of things and elements, processes, dynamics, dialectics and structures of historical reality. And besides, we had the (early) Christian tradition codified in the notion of grace. It didn’t save us either. Lol. -Okay, let me give it a try: Had Mr. Plato come up with the core ideas of Sein und Zeit and had his imaginary work enjoeyd the similar popularity and influence his actual works did in due course of Western intellectual and cultural history we might have a nice happy hippie polygamous tribal communities living from the Earth scattered around mediterranean Europe cultivating grapes and stuff and drinking lots of wine dwelling in gentle groves hiding from the Sun half-naked married with a strong sense of being there, rooted in local (monocultural!) identities, prefering being drunk, making love in groups, playing organic flutes and singing in exctasy of Being to more rational or individual endeavours. Not that bad, if you think about it, rather Roussean - and very Heideggerian! But then again, that is just a hindsight. Paradise lost!
Thank you. Reading Being and Time for the Nth time, and starting to understand - these videos help on many levels, especially when working in isolation - they help confidence in knowing I'm on the right track 🙂
So frustrating! He's a brilliant explainer, and really knows his stuff, and also importantly, has a really sympathetic and warm way of relating to his audience. But like so many explanations, just when he gets to the point, the place beyond the obvious, where we really need an example, he flakes out and says it's not important. (17:33). Many of the philosophers, Kant for example, didn't give examples of trains of thought, just presented ideas. Maybe it's because there's nothing there?
This reminds me of the character Odo from Star Trek: Deep Space 9. He is a changeling/shapeshifter who can take on any form he pleases. Eventually he made his way back to his own people. His leader teaches him what it means to be a rock.
