Ghost of Martin Heidegger Should charges be brought against "The White House Party Crashers"? Even though it appears the Secret Service is partly at fault?[http://lnk.ms/4djbv] Posted 3 hours ago view more
"The world appears complex and unsafe -- which it is.
As a result, the human being, Dasien, must care for itself as no one else can or will.When confronted with the world and other beings, the individual feels anxiety and dread.
Though life is filled with dread that the universe is not safe and guilt that life is every complete, the human being has a desire to exist and define the self. The pursuit of authenticity is constant. While it cannot be perfected, as we coexist with other beings, individuals must work to define themselves.The only proof that an individual understands existence is the understanding and acceptance of death. While a child can understand the physical need for food, the known consequences of not eating are limited to hunger and illness. Death is a complex concept, beyond the grasp of an immature existence.
The moment one accepts death is the point when essence is brought into focus. Knowing that life is finite reinforces the importance of all further decisions. Poor choices result in the "Existential Guilt" of failure. For the existentialist, the worst of natural sins is a failure to define the self using free will. Guilt cannot be avoided, however, because all individuals fail to take some action, to make some choices".
Though Heidegger's Being and Time is often spotted from a glance with a hint of disdain (perhaps because of Heidegger's affiliations), its pursuit is nonetheless quite admirable. I would suggest, however, that one first read the likes of 'Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (KPM)' in order to prepare themselves for BT. I myself did not require a reading guide to fully understand and appreciate (and scrutinize!)
BT, but I had been utterly immersed in every Heideggerian work I was able to get my hands on, in addition to a wealth of other Philosophers from whom he drew. Additionally, much of the discussion of BT shies away from a chief doctrine of all Existentialist thought: contingency; this is yet another reason to read 'KPM' prior to BT. If you are at all inclined in the direction of utterly complex but utterly rewarding thought, and possess a capacity to understand the likes of Heidegger, delve; delve as deeply as you wish, for beneath the question of Being lies an answer only Dasein may disclose: the endless possibilities are daunting, but wondrous.
Heidegger is a highly controversial figure. Even his fiercest critics, however, acknowledge that his importance in philosophy is huge.
Heidegger is important because he found a gaping and defining hole in every philosophical argument from Plato to the 20th century. Nietzsche had looked for it, and had suspected that something was there, something huge, but Heidegger nailed it once and for all. He deserves credit for this, and if you want to know what the hole was, see the citation above.
Hiedegger described his philosophy as the quest Quest for Being.He is classed with and is imseparable from the extententialists although he steadfastly disavowed this connection,maintaining that Being as such rather than personal existence that is his main concern.His work is dominated by a serach for some sort of meaning lying at the heart of the astonishing fact that 'there are things in being'.
It owes a good deal to Kierkeggard and to Heidegger's teacher,Edmund Hursserl.Heidegger in turn exerted a strong influence on Sarte.He employs the term 'Dasien' to describe the mode of existence of a human being and argues that human life is radically different from other froms of life because it is able to be aware of itself and to reflect on it's Being.Humans beings,he holds,may chose to live authentically,having a full sense of their situation in the world,or inauthentically as near-automatons,untinking conforming to established routines and patterns.
Martin Heidegger began as a recognized authority in the phenomenological movement and became an existentialist with theistic leanings. Heidegger based his philosophy upon the “hermeneutics of existence” — or the science of existence. The “scientific” method was that of phenomenological reduction.
Kierkegaard accepted the paradox of being defining itself. As a scientist, Heidegger could not accept this paradox. According to Heidegger, a concept must be defined without using itself as reference. The difficulty of definition was confronted by defining “Being” as a collection of concepts.
..
Heidegger is variously seen as a phenomenologist,an existentialist, a Nazi, a windbag,or a great mind.He certainly welcomed the rise to power of Hitler,and dissociated himself with Edmund Husserl ,his teacher and master,because he was jewish.
Heidegger said he was a phenomenolgist,but everyone else said he was the first atheist existentialist.Most people agree,however,that he is very difficult to follow,almost impossible to summarise ,and wildly speculative.Simply put,he is highy underated.His method is light years away from the rigorous logic of analytic philosophy and he deserves to be recognized.
Heidegger was born in 1889 and grew up in the medieval city of Baden in southwest Germany.He was educated at the University of Freiburg and taught there and at the Unversity of Marburg,where he knew contemprary giants such as Jaspers ,Max Scheler,and Tillich..He was recalled to Freiburg in 1928 on Husserl's retirement,and in the spring of 1933,just after the Nazis came into power in Germany,he became rector of the univeristy.At this time he was an ardent supporter of the Nazis,but his enthusiasm for the regime declined,and in 1935 he resigned as rector.
Despite his earlier Nazi connections he did not lose professorship at the end of the war;he continued to lecture untill the normal time of retirement,but withdrew more and more into a secluded life on a mountaintop in the Black Forest.
Many people who learn that Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) lied over and over again about his Nazism, and that he did his best to ignore the murder of the European Jews, conclude that his writings can be neglected. For those who care about philosophy, however, things are not that simple.
Heidegger was a resentful, ungenerous, disloyal and deceitful man. But he somehow managed to write books that are as powerful and as original as Spinoza's or Hegel's. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jean-Paul Sartre, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Michel Foucault, Jacques Derrida and Jurgen Habermas all cut their teeth on those books. You cannot read most of the important philosophers of recent times without taking Heidegger's thought into account.
Rüdiger Safranski's evenhanded study, ''Martin Heidegger: Between Good and Evil'' (in a capable translation by Ewald Osers), is equally successful at illustrating its subject's pettiness and at displaying the vast power of his imagination. It is the first comprehensive biography of the man, and supersedes both Victor Farias's ''Heidegger and Nazism'' and Hugo Ott's ''Martin Heidegger: A Political Life.'' It reports many facts that these books did not, and it offers a detailed account of Heidegger's intellectual development -- relating his twists and turns, with skill and remarkable concision, to German intellectual and political life in the first half of this century.
Who I'd like to meet: ..
Can you seprate his politics & his philosophy?
I believe it is possible to read and learn from Heidegger without either condoning or making light of his National Socialist affiliation. It is clear that Heidegger did suffer consequences for his National Socialist affiliation. With the denazification hearing in 1945, Heidegger was banned from teaching. Heidegger suffered a nervous breakdown. One would like to think that Heidegger's breakdown involved a recognition of his guilt due to his, most likely passive, complicity with the evil deeds of the Nazi party.
This may hold some truth; yet, Heidegger was also threatened with the dissolution of all that he had worked toward his entire life. Following his nervous breakdown, Heidegger applied for Emeritus status, declaring that he would refrain from teaching. He was granted Emeritus status, provided he refrain from teaching. By 1950, Heidegger was reinstated to his teaching position, and, one year later, he was made professor Emeritus.
Heidegger's magnum opus, Sein und Zeit (Being and Time), dedicated to Husserl, was published in 1927. Heidegger exploded onto the philosophical scene with this work. The book has been described as "a work that, though almost unreadable, was immediately felt to be of prime importance." Heidegger was influenced by the pre-Socratics, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, and Husserl. Heidegger was considered to be following in the footsteps of Husserl in the pursuit of phenomenology. He has also been labeled an existentialist, in the tradition of Kierkegaard. Heidegger proclaimed his concern was ontology, the study of Being.
Heidegger believed it was the purpose of man to examine his experiences as we think of them, not from a scientific perspective (hence his phenomenological label), and to investigate Being in the world. Man has a separate being in relation to the world, and his experiences have a being as well (related to existentialism).
Each must be looked at distinctly to arrive at an "authentic" existence. The inauthentic life springs from man being thrown into the world and becoming lost in it, thus he loses touch with Being. The act of questioning things to arrive at the meaning of Being constitutes an authentic life. Man normally regards objects, nature, and science as tools to utilize. Once these tools show a separate life or nature of being, such as a natural disaster or a broken saw blade, man realizes things to have a distinct being unto themselves.
..
If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself.
-Martin Heidegger
Before considering the question that is seemingly always the most immediate one and the only urgent one, What shall we do? we ponder this: How must we think? For thinking is genuine activity, genuine taking a hand, if to take a hand means to lend a hand to... the coming to presence of Being.
Martin Heidegger
In Being and Time, Heidegger develops and deploys a method called "phenomenological testimony" in order to interpret our ordinary everyday ("ontic") experience of phenomena such as guilt and anxiety "ontologically," that is, in terms of what they reveal about the structural characteristics definitive of human existence.
(Ontology is the study of what is. It thus makes perfect sense that Heidegger’s pursuit of "the question of Being" focuses on ontology. But what is so original is the way Heidegger uses phenomenology, the study of the way things manifest themselves, to answer ontological questions about what those things are.)
For example, Heidegger argues that our ordinary feelings of guilt bear phenomenological witness to the fact that as we make the choices that determine who we are, we are always actualizing one possible self at the expense of many others. Our guilty indebtedness to these other possible selves is thus an ineliminable structural feature of existence which reveals our essential ontological "finitude" (the fact that we cannot "be all that we can be").
Heidegger was an extremely prolific writer (the on-going publication of his Collected Works looks to fill about seventy volumes), and one should recognize that his work did not come to a stop with Being and Time. He continued to develop, extend, and in some places revolutionize his own thinking for another half century.
In fact, Heidegger’s later thinking makes for an incomparably fertile—and troubling—philosophical terrain, but one which we will have to reserve for the occasion of a much more careful and extended hermeneutic reconnaissance.
Heidegger’s philosophy is essentially an attempt to marry two insights.
The first of these is Heidegger’s insight that, in the course of over two thousand years of history, philosophy has attended to all the beings that can be found in the world (including the “world” itself), but has forgotten to ask what “being” itself is. This is Heidegger’s “question of being,” and it is Heidegger’s fundamental concern throughout his work from the beginning of his career until its end. One crucial source of this insight was Heidegger’s reading of Franz Brentano’s treatise on Aristotle’s manifold uses of the word “being,” a work which provoked Heidegger to ask what kind of unity underlies this multiplicity of uses.
Heidegger opens his magnum opus, Being and Time, with a citation from Plato’s Sophist indicating that Western philosophy has neglected being because it was considered obvious, rather than as worthy of question. Heidegger’s intuition about the question of being is thus an historical argument, which in his later work becomes his concern with the “history of being,” that is, the history of the forgetting of being, which according to Heidegger requires that philosophy retrace its footsteps through a productive “destruction” of the history of philosophy.
The second intuition animating Heidegger’s philosophy derives from the influence of Edmund Husserl, a philosopher largely uninterested in questions of philosophical history. Rather, Husserl argued that all that philosophy could and should be is a description of experience (hence the phenomenological slogan, “to the things themselves”).
But for Heidegger, this meant understanding that experience is always already situated in a world and in ways of being. Thus Husserl's understanding that all consciousness is "intentional" (in the sense that it is always intended toward something, and is always "about" something; intentionality has been called the "aboutness" of things) is transformed in Heidegger's philosophy, becoming the thought that all experience is grounded in "care."
This is the basis of Heidegger’s “existential analytic,” as he develops it in Being and Time. Heidegger argues that to be able to describe experience properly means finding the being for whom such a description might matter. Heidegger thus conducts his description of experience with reference to “Dasein," the being for whom being is a question.In Being and Time, Heidegger criticized the abstract and metaphysical character of traditional ways of grasping human existence as rational animal, person, man, soul, spirit, or subject. Dasein, then, is not intended as a way of conducting a "philosophical anthropology," but is rather understood by Heidegger to be the condition of possibility for anything like a "philosophical anthropology."
In the course of his existential analytic, Heidegger argues that Dasein, who finds itself thrown into the world amidst things and with others, is thrown into its possibilities, including the possibility and inevitability of one’s own mortality. The need for Dasein to assume these possibilities, that is, the need to be responsible for one’s own existence, is the basis of Heidegger’s notions of authenticity and resoluteness—that is, of those specific possibilities for Dasein which depend on escaping the “vulgar” temporality of calculation and of public life.
The marriage of these two insights depends on the fact that each of them is essentially concerned with time. That Dasein is thrown into an already existing world and thus into its mortal possibilities does not only mean that Dasein is an essentially temporal being; it also implies that the description of Dasein can only be carried out in terms inherited from the Western tradition itself.
For Heidegger, unlike for Husserl, philosophical terminology could not be divorced from the history of the use of that terminology, and thus genuine philosophy could not avoid confronting questions of language and meaning. The existential analytic of Being and Time was thus always only a first step in Heidegger’s philosophy, to be followed by the “destruction” of the history of philosophy, that is, a transformation of its language and meaning, that would have made of the existential analytic only a kind of “limit case” (in the sense in which special relativity is a limit case of general relativity).
That Heidegger did not write this second part of Being and Time, and that the existential analytic was left behind in the course of Heidegger’s subsequent writings on the history of being, might be interpreted as a failure to conjugate his account of individual experience with his account of the vicissitudes of the collective human adventure that he understands the Western philosophical tradition to be. And this would in turn raise the question of whether this failure is due to a flaw in Heidegger’s account of temporality, that is, of whether Heidegger was correct to oppose vulgar and authentic.
According to Heidegger's writings, human being -- as opposed to human beings -- is comprised of four components: concern, being-toward-death, existence, and moods. Dasein is the act of "being there" in essence. Without being something, there is no existence.
Concern, or Sorge, is the ability to care about the self, in relation to phenomena. Being-toward-death, or Sein zum Tode, represents the finite nature of life. This belief that death defines life complements Søren Kierkegaard's thought that God does not exist, but is real. Existence, or Existenz, represents knowing one is and is changing. Finally, moods, or Stimmungen, are reactions to other beings, further allowing one to define the self.
Dasein requires choices and resulting actions to define the self. These choices allow for an almost unlimited combination of the components of being. Each choice represents a pivotal point in the individuals life -- every choice, even the seemingly minor ones, contribute to the larger definition of self. Choices occur in relation to a timeline, universal and personal. These points in time became the topic of Heidegger's Being and Time.
Ghost of Martin Heidegger 's Friend Space (Top 16)
da in ich ja auf eine äußerst interessante seite gestoßen. schade, dass es nicht möglich ist bilder zu schicken. die besten grüße aus marburg. mephistopholus
!!! Am Samstag, den 28.11. ist es im Cuba Nova wieder soweit !!!
SUPERTRÄSH ... das wird heldenhaft!
Öl schon Mal gehörig Deine Stimmbänder, denn bei dieser Party kannst du dich eh nicht davor retten lauthals mitzugröhlen! Und zwar genau bei den Gassenhauern, die Dir sonst immer peinlich sind. Denn wenn alle andern auf ihr Schamgefühl sche#*en, fällt es Dir auf einmal auch ganz leicht die heimlich von MTV abgeguckten Tanzschritte nach 15 Jahren endlich Mal live zu performen. Und all das geht heute Abend gleich auf zwei Floors!! Auf der Euroträsh-Fläche kannst du gepflegt zu den Backstreet Boys kreischen, zu Culture Beat abgehen, dancen zu Whigfield, nicht rot anlaufen zu David Hasselhoff und dich auf die Spice Girls, Snap, Take That & 2Unlimited freuen! Die härtere Fraktion spielt ihre Luftgitarre übrigens auf dem Rock’n’Gröll-Floor und hebt die Hände zu Nirvana, Greenday, NoFX, Such A Surge, Soundgarden, Clawfinger, Weezer und Metallica. Und Probleme mit dem Warm-Gröhlen gibt’s auch nicht, dafür sorgt schon Boris Gott. Der ist als trashiger Gast geladen und singt harte Schlager aus dem dunklen Herzen des Ruhrgebiets. Amusement garantiert! Das Kultigste was es so gegeben hat im schrecklich schrillen Mix zum hemmungslosen Abfeiern.
Regard... indeed... a monumental page in Philosophy! keep thinking, may our mind expand and expand in our own frenal reality but never cross the borders of no return, which would be total madness.
Interesting site. Haven't read much Heidegger, but found what you have here notable.
I see atheism as a reaction to religion as commendable, as all religions appear hopelessly flawed, but atheism as a belief system that contends nothing exists beyond the physical world as just another fundamentalist religion that requires dogmatic adherence to its precepts in spite of any evidence to the contrary.
The dance of touch The frisson as the fingers linger on your wrist or hair The fingers on the wrist The fingers on the hiar The close enough to smell him The way his scent lingers when he’s gone The dance of bodies passing each other on the way for coffee The close enough to smell bodies responding Flesh fat and pink The bodies quicken The breath quickens What was lifeless now turgid with response Notice how the breathing makes itself heard The in and out of the air The circulation of oxygen and corpuscles The pumping heart The pumping muscle The clasping and unclasping The thickening of voices The invocation of the Beloved The saying of names The rock and the roll The evacuation of the soul
Suspiration The sighs The hands between thighs The little animal voices in the ear The exhalation The rapture The enchantment The pronouncing of names The prayers and praise The dance of hands on flesh The dance of emptied minds The bodies transcend corporeal fact The bodies become nothing but tissue and fluid Spiritual transcendence through carnality The emptied of meaninglessness The emptied space occupied by nothing but this moment This soul This body This flesh These scents “The smell of the boy-- Makes me love him forever.”
Hey :=) Thanks for the friendship :=). God :=) is :=) love :=) Not a religion :=) religion is dangerous! Religion can't save anyone :=) But Jesus can :=) God is not interested in religion :=) God is a personal God :=) God is a relationship :=) Jesus Christ :=) is :=) the Way :=) the Truth :=) and the Life :=) Jesus :=) Christ :=) our :=) Loving :=) Lord :=) God :=) Almighty :=) Father :=) King :=) Creator :=) Savior :=) and Friend :=) bless you :=). All the best :=)
Thank you, We appreciate your support ! We hope to see ya soon at one of our shows and make sure to check out our music at our MySpace and check the merchandise in our shop !
HORNS UP !!!!!! GWYDION http://www.freewebstore.org/GwydionShop
