Questions tagged [heidegger]
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher
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Is alienation (Heideggerian) related to assimilation and accommodation?
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Dasein experiences being-in-the-world and thrown-ness with the
disclosure of this state through moods such as angst and boredom, in
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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:
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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?
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After the world of das Man loses its significance and becomes meaningless, one falls in anxiety and he's able to embrace other possibilities.
But this anxiety is converted automatically ...
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Introduction to Heidegger
I have not read anything of Martin Heidegger and I am interested in starting. I understand that "Being and Time" can be very difficult, so what would be a good place to start? (including ...
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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
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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)
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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 ...
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What does Heidegger mean by cybernetics here?
In the Seminar on Heraclitus, conducted by Martin Heidegger and Eugen Fink in 1966, Heidegger says:
In the experiment which we undertake, there is no
question of wanting to conjure up Heraclitus ...
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Dasein and know thyself
Socrates famously asked the question 'know thyself'.
When I first read of this it impressed me. It seemed like an important question. What could be more important than knowing your own self? It seems ...
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Ontic vs. Ontological
Are the two terms the same or not? In what sense Heidegger makes a distinction between the two?
Can someone give also simple examples of the difference?
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Is there a connection between Heidegger's "anxiety" and Horkheimer's "subjective reason"?
After reading "What is Metaphysics?" by Heidegger and "Eclipse of Reason" by Horkheimer, I'm left wondering if there is any apparent connection between how Heidegger described anxiety and Horkheimer's ...
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What do Heidegger and Brandom think knowledge is?
I just finished reading An Introduction to Feminist Epistemologies by Alessandra Tanesini, and while I got quite a lot out of it (seriously, I was totally unfamiliar with the field, and now I want to ...
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Why is Being not an entity in Heidegger's Being and Time?
Just starting working through Heidegger's Being and Time. Why is Being not an entity? Heidegger says this: (Section 2, German H4)
‘Being’ cannot indeed be conceived as an entity; enti non additur ...
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Can 'the they self' help us understand Nietzsche's response to nihilism?
Can 'das man' or 'the they self' help us understand Nietzsche's response to nihilism? I'm asking because these are concepts I think I can intuitively grasp from within my life, quite unlike Nietzsche'...
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Hubert Dreyfus & Heidegger - is Heidegger a dualist?
Heidegger rejects Cartesian dualism... but this video with Hubert Dreyfus confuses me:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G24JBUh4yVg
At 9:00, he implies that according to Heidegger, physics can't ...
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does the Myth of Sisyphus illustrate dasein?
In the brief illustration provided by Camus we see a man pushing a stone and accepting his lot. As the stone rolls back down the hill it seems he is able to remove himself from this plight, much like ...
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Any recommendations on commentaries / rebuttals of Heidegger's Question Concerning Technology?
I'm looking for recommendations of commentaries, rebuttals or relevant papers on a Heideggerian approach to examining the essence of technology (famously in 'The Question Concerning Technology' but ...
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Is Dasein Heideggerian Zen? [closed]
I was reading about Heidegger's concept of "Dasein" as being or existing in the moment. It struck a chord of similarity with the eastern concept of Zen. Is there a parallel?
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Heidegger's origin of the work of art and Nietzsche's Dionysian vs. Apollonian forces in art
In "Origin of the Work of Art" ( der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes), Heidegger talks about a piece of art as something that is both world and earth. These two are in a constant battle, in which they drive ...
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Difference between zeug and art(works) for Heidegger
Why is Heidegger making a difference between 'zeug' (instruments) and a work of art?
The reason that I do not understand this difference is that in my experience every object has the power to show ...
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What does 'hermeneutic analysis' mean for non-literary material?
I am reading Exploring Robotic Minds by Prof. Jun Tani in which he describes Heidegger as having performed a hermeneutic analysis of the problem of the subjective vs the objective.
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How does the circularity involved in the ontology of Dasein effect the question of the meaning of Being?
An entity for which, as Being-in-the-world, its Being is itself an
issue, has, ontologically, a circular structure
Does this mean that the very reasons for studying the meaning of Being are ...
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What is the relation between Spirit and Time in Hegel?
Martin Heidegger in his Being and Time criticized the connection between Spirit and Time proposed by Hegel saying that:
Hegel shows the possibility of the historical actualization of spirit "in ...
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What is the argument for Heidegger's claim that philosophy can only be done in Greek and German?
Here it is said that Heidegger viewed German and Greek as the only languages in which doing philosophy is possible at all.
The article references several sources [I won't list them to save space] I ...
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Can we fit the worldhood of the world in the world we have in common?
Is 'world' perhaps a characteristic of Dasein's Being ? And in that
case, does every Dasein 'proximally' have its world ? Does not 'world'
thus become something 'subjective' ? How, then, can ...
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Are Graham Harman's concealed real objects "inaccessible" or merely "not fully accessible in a given moment"?
I am reading Graham Harman's "Quadruple Object", but having difficulties in following the connection he makes between the Real Object and the Sensual Qualities.
He starts forming his quadruple ...
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What is onto-theology (Heideggerian)?
From what I understand, it is a term that combines ontology and theology, at least in the case of Heidegger, to describe modern metaphysics. To understand what onto-theology is, I first tried to ...
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What does poetry enact according to Heidegger?
The following idea is cited approving in a book I just read
Derrida, Heidegger, Blanchot, by Timothy Clark
But on an earlier page the same author says
In what way can a poem be "nothing but its own ...
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Why does Leonardo da Vinci make the following claim?
In Excursus 6, in Agamben's book Language & Death he excerpts the following quotations from da Vinci's notebooks (Cod. Arundel. f.131r):
Among the magnitude of things around us, the being of ...
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Does Heidegger really think we need certainty to act? Is he right to?
Heidegger on Marx
Does Heidegger really think we need certainty to act?
He seems to. Leaving aside the I think frank ludicrousness of the demand, suppose that it's true, and that this stymies ...
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How does Heidegger characterise inauthentic being toward death?
I'm not interested in the hermeneutic / philosophical niceties, but a specific phrase in Being and Time, that I can't find.
I thought he made two notes side by side, on inauthentic then authentic ...
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What does Heidegger mean by saying that Bergson's concept of time is essentially spatial?
In Being and Time, Heidegger writes:
This task as a whole requires that the concept of time thus gained be distinguished from the common understanding of it. The latter has become explicit in an ...
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How many different usages of being is there in this short paragraph of Heidegger?
Quite close to the beginning of Being and Time, [SuZ p. 7] in what might be taken as the preamble and introduction; Heidegger writes the following:
Regarding, understanding, grasping, choosing and ...
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Reference - Heidegger on Hölderlin's translations?
Surely Heidegger was well aware of the enormous power of Hölderlin's translations, especially of Sophocles' tragedies. Did Heidegger write something about this facet of Hölderlin?
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When Heidegger talks about "Being" is it related to the totality of all entities in a unity "Being"?
When Heidegger talks about "Being" is it related to the totality of all entities in a unity "Being"?
That is, by analogy, is the Being in Heidegger something like "Para Brahman" (in Hindu Philosophy) ...
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Any advice for starting with Heidegger's What is Called Thinking
I thought I might pick up a copy, see what he's saying there.
Any advice, things to look out for, half baked rebuttals of the project?
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Can "freedom toward death" have 'freedom' translated out of it?
The term "freedom toward death" appears in Heidegger's Being and Time, e.g. p255
to be itself in the passionate anxious freedom toward death, which is
free of the illusions of the they, factical, ...
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Dasein is or isn't responsible, isn't accountable: so what?
I was looking at this
The Origins of Responsibility
By François Raffoul
It's not immediately clear what it means to be responsible but not accountable. Is it just the very loud claim that Dasein'...
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What is the gist of Heidegger's idea about 'being'?
I was reading Heidegger's Basic Concepts and came across the following quote:
"the casting-toward of being and the casting away of being are equally essential" (P. 75)
I do understand that only ...
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