This lecture course is pure gold if you’re interested in understanding “Being and Time”. Professor Kelly covers the phenomenology and holism aspects of the topic in greater detail than any published source that I’ve found. However if you’re new to “Being and Time”, start with Professor Dreyfus’ Phil 185 course first, since this recording series is missing several key lectures on, for example: Discourse, Disposedness, Understanding, and Anxiety.
Dreyfus and Kelly really show us what it means to teach philosophy. They’re translating an alien language for us and communicating in a language that we can understand.
I came back to these lectures to refresh my recollection on Heidegger. His is a philosophy that really moved me from the start, when I studied him in college. My college professor, Samuel Todes, was a brilliant man but was notoriously difficult to follow as a teacher. So I had to struggle along learning Heidegger from his teaching, but also on my own. Sean Kelly does a wonderful job of taking material that is extremely difficult to *truly* understand and making it comprehensible. So . . . nice lecture.
This was very helpful. I've been through B a T three times. There are levels to grasping it. One book that I have found essential is the Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon. That was actually the text that helped me breakthrough into a fuller understanding. Pricey but worth it if you're committed to understanding H. Just a suggestion.
3:13:30 The condition of possibility of the understanding of being for Dasein is Temporality (Temporalität). This makes Dasein's transcendence possible. Rooted in this transcendence is being-in-the-world (or 'Care', Dasein's basic constitution) and this is what makes intentionality possible. From most to least primordial it goes: temporality, being-in-the-world (care structure) intentionality.
How does understanding this work change one's relationship to life, day to day life, directly, indirectly, etc? What is the take-away? Is there a lifestyle change? An improvement of any kind? A practical application? A perceptual change?
I’ve stumbled through it. My take away is that you need to ignore all the constraints and B/S around you and placed upon you. It is only when you throw off the constraints of the other and live according to your truths and come to realise that your time is limited by your imminent nothingness (which is the only certainty) that you can learn to be authentic and be at ease with yourself. For me it wasn’t any great revelation, a no-shit Sherlock moment. At least that’s my truth😊.
@@yp77738yp77739 I will be honest here. I do not have the patience to listen to this. I may have years ago had the patience or curiosity to try to listen to an hour or so probably, but I couldn't do more than a minute now. And the idea that this long dissertation had some hidden gems to unlock my mind (and I mean MY MIND - not anyones) was dubious - which is why I asked those questions. I guess I just wanted to prove to myself that it was BS (FOR ME). I am sort of done with people who like to indulge in abstract theories this way. I am not really knocking anyone for this, because I do believe everyone has their own path, and needs to explore and learn their own way, but I see a possible lack of awareness in the long-windedness of a 7 1/2 hour discussion about who the f..k knows what. Very elevated. Probably very scientific and maybe very convincing that it's about something, but in the end, what is it doing for me? What will listening carefully to this 7.5 hour boring as shit (TO ME) discussion do for me after I am done listening? You answered me very well, and I get exactly where you are coming from "no-shit Sherlock" Yes! Thank You! If it helps some people and I suspect it can, that's great! Not for me though. If anyone got some revelations out of this, I would be very interested to hear what they were. As specific as you can be, as you would explain to an 8 year old, which may be the goldilocks zone for universal understanding 🙃🙂 .
Great to have access to these lectures, but…what’s the point, really? Good, form, God, Being…all for what? Just something to do while we’re here, I guess.
scholar.harvard.edu/sdkelly/classes/proseminar-late-heidegger ProSeminar: Late Heidegger Course Description A selection of readings from Martin Heidegger’s late work, focusing on his discussion of thinking, poetry, gods, works of art and things. Late Heidegger was consumed with the question how cultures in the modern West can gather and preserve meaningful possibilities of existence for the people who live in them. We will focus for some time especially on Heidegger’s reading of the German poet Hölderlin, whom he interprets as the paradigm of a poet who resonates with and preserves meaning in “destitute times”. We will also examine Heidegger’s difficult views concerning technology and its role in our modern world.
