I tend to find death-facing machismo a significant ingredient in the early Heidegger. — green flag
I find it unreadable so I can't comment, but I am interested to obtain a general understanding of his themes and subjects. — Tom Storm
Is there any humor in Heidegger? — Tom Storm
It is overlooked that ontology arises out of a already functional world which already has its understanding of being. There is a basic substrate within which all thinking already operates, which it always presumes and which can't be ignored or abstracted. — waarala
“… all metaphysics leaves something essential unthought: its own ground and foundation. — Joshs
Philosophy gets under way only by a peculiar insertion of our own existence into the fundamental possibilities of Dasein as a whole. — Joshs
What unites all these attempts as metaphysical is their defining of this ultimate ground as some sort of abiding presence. — Joshs
We are thrown into ways of thinking, a cage of concepts that can only be question from within, using those very concepts. — green flag
the medium, language, is already there, as a kind of inescapable presupposition. This is one of my favorite themes in Heidegger. This inherited medium is the sediment of the living thought of previous generations. We are thrown into ways of thinking, a cage of concepts that can only be question from within, using those very concepts — green flag
Language isnt the sedimented past, it is the transformation of this past in the disclosure of the world. — Joshs
Language isnt the sedimented past, it is the transformation of this past in the disclosure of the world.
— Joshs
I'd say it's both sediment and transformative disclosure. See page 270, for instance, of the lecture version of The Concept of Time, which can be summarized as "the Anyone has in idle talk its true form of being." And "what one [the Anyone] says is really what controls the various possibilities of the being of Dasein — green flag
Idle talk doesn’t illustrate the sedimented nature of language, as if we directly introject verbal meanings from the culture. — Joshs
Perhaps Heidegger was influenced by Kierkegaard in this. In his journal (I paraphrase), he criticizes the fantasy of presuppositionless philosophy by emphasizing that the medium, language, is already there, as a kind of inescapable presupposition. This is one of my favorite themes in Heidegger. This inherited ... — green flag
“Idle talk is the possibility of understanding everything without any previous appropriation of the matter. Idle talk, which everyone can snatch up, not only divests us of the task of genuine understanding, but develops an indifferent intelligibility for which nothing is closed off any longer ...” — Joshs
I don’t see Heidegger as a Kierkegaardian existentialist. His philosophy moved quite a distance from Kierkegaard, despite the surface similarities.With his phenomenological approach Heidegger's aim is to treat this "life context", as ontology of "Dasein", more systematically and strictly than Dilthey . Heidegger's Kierkegaardian existentialism — waarala
How can "beings" as signifier have meaning if it doesn't signify common attributes of things, thereby gathering these things together into a set? — ucarr
Life not merely as biological concept but rather as a human life i.e. as something spiritual (geistig) i.e. cultural-historical. And this human environment is at its base a language-like, differentiated-articulated whole. With his phenomenological approach Heidegger's aim is to treat this "life context", as ontology of "Dasein", more systematically and strictly than Dilthey . — waarala
How can "beings" as signifier have meaning if it doesn't signify common attributes of things, thereby gathering these things together into a set? — ucarr
Joshs
I'm not sure we should trust Heidegger when it comes to Kierkegaard. I'm reading K's journals at the moment and the strong influence is clear. As I mentioned above, Heidegger himself seems influenced by Hegel, even if he rips out this or that module, for which he indeed deserves credit. — green flag
What do you think is preserved of the Hegelian dialectic in Heidegger ( or Nietzsche, for that matter)? — Joshs
You can always hold onto a Kierkegaardian interpretation of Heidegger by sticking with Dreyfus , Sheehan or any of the other theologically oriented readers of him. But many have rejected those readings. — Joshs
Big picture, we can understand the sequence of philosophers as spirit/'software' becoming more and more aware of itself, making its nature more explicit, thereby increasing its distance from itself and its 'turning radius.' This might be described as communal self-knowledge — green flag
These substitutes for god simply reinstantiate theology in a different form. — Joshs
the past arrives already changed by the present that occurs into it , these realist models become incoherent. — Joshs
these realist models become incoherent. It no longer makes sense to build structures that progressively unify themselves — Joshs
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