Questions tagged [heidegger]
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher
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Difference between Being, Existing, Ontical and Existential in "on Being and Time"
I am trying to understand differences of Being, Ontical and Existential. What are they trying to imply by itself seperately?
Ontical seems to mean "phyisical existance"
Existensial seems to ...
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Heidegger's being-towards-death?
May I have misunderstood Heidegger philosophy, and I've melted up it with psycology, but isn't the being-towards-death, with the authentic Dasein, an anxious way of life?
I mean, in the moment in ...
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How did symbolic logic show that Heidegger's assertions about the nothing were illogical?
In his inaugural address at Freiburg University in 1929, Heidegger
explicitly challenged the central place given to logical principles in
neo-Kantianism, on the basis of a radical account of ‘the ...
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So what if the nature of Dasein is Being-in?
I am new to Heidegger. I've just made some preliminary sense of what an existentiale is supposed to be (I am taking it as ontological elements of Dasein's being, core things that are possibility ...
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Heidegger's "Dasein" vs. Sartre's "Being for itself"
I must admit, I am relatively new to existentialist philosophy. But I couldn't help notice the similarities between Heidegger's "Dasein" and Satre's "Being-for-itself". I was ...
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Is this a point of contact between Marxism and Heidegger?
Is this a point of contact between Marxism and Heidegger?
Marx complains (bitterly) about exploitation by your - class - enemies
Heidegger complains about inauthenticity, which I might gloss as ...
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How does Bergson’s conception of time differ from Heideggers’s?
I know that both did conceive of temporal time and brough it closer to our finite expirince, thus turning away from classical metaphysics of time. But what is the difference between them?
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Are there any philosophers associated with phenomenology and existentialism that argue that death should not matter to an individual?
I have mainly been focussing upon Heidegger in relation to death and the way in which he believes it is of great importance because in order to live authentically one must 'be-towards-death'. surley ...
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Why should Dasein be authentic when one knows that he/she will be responsible for his/her actions when he chooses authenticity over inauthenticity?
Answers except "to know about being yourself" are really appreciated because this is the question itself. What should I strive to know about myself when I am happy with my life right now, ...
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I will be dead, but not sooner or later?
Are there properties, rather than the referents of terms, which can only be predicated of one thing?
for those who attach metaphysical weight to the distinction between
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Does Heidegger, or any Heidegderian, say that my "ownmost" has Being?
Does Heidegger, or any Heidegderian, say that my "ownmost" has Being? Obviously, that term often means "death", and I'm guessing Heidegger says death has no Being. But perhaps he ...
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Why didn't Heidegger take other kinds emotion as the deepest and original feeling of Dasein?
As the author of The phenomenological movement, Spiegelberg. H., put it, why should Heidegger take "angst" or "Sorge" as the deepest and original feeling of Dasein (although I myself support it and ...
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Heidegger - how does the present-at-hand become ready-to-hand?
I'm talking about the learning process... whereby a tool, first unfamiliar to the user, after some period of time, becomes transparent to the user. For example someone learning to play an instrument.
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In what way is Heidegger's philosophy right wing?
I know that Heidegger was an NSDAP member but I am only somewhat familiar with his work, and I'm asking this question so that I don't have to scan everything he's written to find out.
For an example,...
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Secondary Work on Kant's Critique of Pure Reason
I'm currently reading through the Critique of Pure Reason for the first time and have on hand a book by Martin Heidegger titled, "Phenomenological Interpretations of Kant's Critique of Pure Reason." I ...
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Importance of technology in Western thought
Ours is a world which is full of promises that advanced technology, such as autonomous cars, cloud computing, quantum computing, and artificial intelligence will somehow bring forth a future worth ...
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Am I nothing more than my Dasein?
I believe Dasein is the Being of a human life, and that Dasein essentially has Being-in-the-world.
I think I've finally got a handle on how to compare philosophy "East" and "West" and just need to ...
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Does anyone claim freedom toward death is not for me, but for others?
My "freedom toward death" (Being and Time, p255, SUNY Press, 1 Jan 1996) is key for authenticity, according to Heidegger.
It seems obvious that he means that this freedom is me, and that claim for be ...
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If entities are all that IS [entities = being], isn't Heidegger's claim that being is something "extra" incongruent?
I saw that there's already a question about this but the emphasis was on what could being be if not an entity. Heidegger thinks of Being as something "extra", a priori, to entities. I'd like to ...
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What tends to be the opinion on Heidegger's analysis of Greek philosophy?
What tends to be the opinion on Heidegger's analysis of Greek philosophy? What do experts in the (classical) history of philosophy make of his statements about ancient Greek philosophy?
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Where can I read Kant's view of thinking as willing, spontaneity and re-presenting?
I am reading Martin Heidegger's Discourse on Thinking. At the beginning of "Conversation on a Country Path About Thinking*, the Scholar remarks: (page 58-9)
But thinking, understood in the ...
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Does Heidegger (or Blanchot?) reflect on the form of the question itself?
I have this notion that Heidegger is the first person to think about the framing of the question as a mode of inquiry. That is, to approach something as a question is to be already decided that a ...
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Must an analysis of Being precede the positive sciences?
In the first few pages of Being and Time Heidegger writes:
such an inquiry [into foundations]... still needs a guideline... it
remains naive and opaque if... it leaves the meaning of being in
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Are the logical leaps in Heidegger thought fully explained through his phenomenological framework?
The idea of the necessity of knowing what Dassein is in order to understand what beingness is is never explained, it is just deliberately stated as fact. And also how he rejects the ontological ideas ...
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What do all these types of nihilism mean?
Nihilism manifests itself in various contexts—for example,
individual and collective, historical and psychological—and different
expressions, for instance, ontological, epistemological, ethical,
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In Being and Time, was Heidegger doing phenomenology, using the phenomenological reduction?
In Being and Time, was Heidegger doing phenomenology, using the phenomenological reduction? If so, how routinely, or even when?
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Do Heidegger and some of his readers know why there is something rather than nothing?
Do Heidegger and some of his readers know why there is something rather than nothing? There seems to the suggestion in the SEP that he may explain why, but it's unclear in what way the argument can be ...
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How did Heidegger argue for the certainty of death?
How did Heidegger argue for the certainty of death?
I gather that's a component of one characteristic of death, that it's "not to be outstripped". The other component being its indefiniteness, that I ...
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What's the difference between ontical and ontological?
I looked it up on Wikipedia and got this:
Ontical refers to a particular area of Being, whereas ontological
ought to refer to Being as such.
Ontic vs. Ontological
I also read the above, but I ...
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Who or what is the being for whom Being is a question for Heidegger?
Did a quick search of Dasein on Google and found this:
In Being and Time, Heidegger investigates the question of Being by
asking about the being for whom Being is a question. Heidegger
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Does anyone say that Being is a primitive, unanalyzable, term?
Does anyone say that Being is a primitive, unanalyzable, term?
That probably would make Being and Time the greatest work of nonsense of all time. I certainly feel able to imagine that Being is ...
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What were the 'philosophical cover-up' practised by Heidegger in his Nietzschean lectures 1936-45
In Bambachs, Heidegger Roots, he offers an authoritative analysis of the manipulations practised by Heidegger in his Nietzsche lectures between 1936-45. He calls them a 'philosophical cover-up' ...
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Is alienation (Heideggerian) related to assimilation and accommodation?
According to this paper:
Dasein experiences being-in-the-world and thrown-ness with the
disclosure of this state through moods such as angst and boredom, in
which Dasein experiences a sense of ...
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Making It with Death: The complicity of Phenomenology with Effort
In his essay, Making it with Death, Nick Land makes some assertions about Phenomenology:
Work is also complicit with phenomenology, which grounds the experience of effort, rather than treating this ...
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Does the "Temporal" determinateness apply to both temporal and non-temporal entities?
Heidegger wrote in Being and Time that:
In both pre-philosophical and philosophical usage the expression
'termporal' has been pre-empted by the signification we have cited; in
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Why Dasein has only a pre-ontological Being rather than an ontological Being?
In the book Being and Time, Heidegger wrote that:
We have already intimated that Dasein has a pre-ontological Being as
its ontically constitutive state.
It's intuitive to me only when I thought ...
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What other philosophers I read before taking a class on “being and time”
I’ll be taking a class on Heidegger’s Being and time next spring, which would be my first rigorous philosophy class. The class would begin by reading Husserl’s Cartesian Meditations, and then proceed ...
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Does Heidegger ever develop his distinction between modern and traditional technology in detail?
Mark Blitz's article Understanding Heidegger on Technology (The New Atlantis, 2014) describes Heidegger's distinction between modern and traditional technology in the following way:
Everything ...
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Did Heidegger talk about malice at all?
Did Heidegger talk about malice at all?
I agree and find interesting if not useful most of Nietzsche's aphorisms but felt that his analysis of malice was just weak, and obviously so. However, I liked ...
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How does Martin Heidegger want us to react to anxiety?
Introduction:
After the world of Das Mann lose its significance and becomes meaningless, one falls in anxiety and he's able to embrace other possibilities.
But this anxiety is converted ...
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Introduction to Heidegger
I have not read anything of Heidegger and I'm am interested in starting. I understand that "Being and Time" can be very difficult, so what would be a good place to start? (including books by others).
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Can dasein repeat without a time
Can dasein repeat without a time or is dasein necessarily in time. I recall that dasein is structured by care, but not if that always involves times
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Relation between the inauthentic mode of existence and indifference to other people's subjectivity
Introduction:
Heidegger believed that there are two fundamental modes of existing in
the world:
(1)Authentic mode (2)Inauthentic mode [Being and Time, 1927]
Sartre believed that there ...
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Reason is the adversary of thinking
I came across this quote by the German philosopher Martin Heidegger:
Thinking only begins at the point where we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the most obstinate ...
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Was Heidegger simply a Lebensreform (er)?
Here is a little information about the Lebensreform in English. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebensreform
I am referring particularly to the time before WWI. (edit)
It is hard to say, of course,...
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Does anyone say that dying for a cause is always irrational? [closed]
Does anyone say that dying for a cause is always irrational? I wouldn't gloss Heidegger's freedom-toward-death, like that, but it might be broadly similar.
On the one hand, I would prefer to die ...
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What did Heidegger get wrong about Hölderlin?
The reason we know very much about Hölderlin isn't from Schelling or Hegel who actually knew him, but from Heidegger, many years after his death, to help fill out the nature of art in his ontology. ...
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Where and why does Heidegger use the phrase "always already"?
"Always already" is a strange phrase/concept I see cropping up everywhere in post-structuralist discourse, used by a wide variety of authors. I was curious as to its origin; Wikipedia says Heidegger ...
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What do you make of this sentence?
Can anybody explain the following sentence to me? What is less than what?
Less than the ability to use reason to escape mortality, Heidegger argued that what defines us is primarily the attempt and ...
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What are some recommendations for guidebooks or companion-books to Heidegger's "Being and Time"?
I'm looking for a guidebook or some other companion to Heidegger's "Being and Time". Ideally, I'd like to find a book that steps through the entire original work, providing summary and background to ...
