PHILOSOPHY - Heidegger
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- Опубліковано 9 вер 2014
- A look at Martin Heidegger - an often incomprehensible but deeply valuable German philosopher who wanted us to lead more authentic lives.
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“The field is not without other distinguished contestants, but in the competitive history of incomprehensible German philosophers, Martin Heidegger must, by any reckoning, emerge as the overall victor. Nothing quite rivals the prose of his masterpiece Being and Time (1927) in terms of contortions and the sheer number of complex compound German words which the author coined, among them ‘Seinsvergessenheit’ (Forgetfulness of Being), ‘Bodenständigkeit’ (Rootedness-in-soil) and ‘Wesensverfassung’ (Essential Constitution)...”
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I had to point this out: as a German person, I appreciate the effort and emphasis you put into the German words. You don't ridicule and overemphasize them like every other person. Thumbs up!
That's rude
+Justice Rule first racist comment i've read under a school of life video, congratulation. i hope you find a cure for your hatred
+Garreth Koslowski ich will mich nur solidarisieren. ist nicht schön sowas zu lesen
+TheCHEESE333 Es gibt immer solche Leute im Internet... Sowas rutscht mir den Rücken runter :)
+Garreth Koslowski Also, even though I'm German as well, I found their translations very helpful in understanding what Heidegger actually meant.
I kept trying to rub the spot off of my screen only to realise it was just the video. *face palms*
+1210Nique specifically looked at the comments to find someone who did the same.
+1210Nique I only noticed it now that you mentioned it. My brain totally ignored it! It's totally something I'd fall for. I have literally tried to scare flies away from my screen by moving my cursor close to them.
+Daniel Coimbra And it never seems to work.
1210Nique I actually have a spot on my screen that i cant remove and this really fucked with me
Haha... me too... I just realised from your comment. :D
I love how he immediately changes to an angry voice when he pronounces German words. XD I'm German btw
@@homan2223 so?
Con fucking gratulations
I hate it
How’s his accent
When you aren't German and you try very hard to pronounce correctly it's impossible to keep the stress out of your voice. I know from experience. Try speaking German without being German if you don't believe me.
How do these videos not have more views? This channel is fucking fantastic.
Thanks for all your hard work!
SpaceManDawn because the masses are allergic to any intellectual activity.
Fernando Reyes Masses are allergic to any intellectual idiot.
Ioh, o Filho do Pescador poor devils, they are headed to the crematory
UA-cam views and analytics are meaningless, yet also utterly meaningful
Because not everyone is interested in finding the meaning of life or is privileged to do so as they're busy surviving.
I, humbly, suggest everyone sacrifice three months of there lives and a loose-leaf note book to "Being in Time". Read each paragraph as you would a complete book. Take notes and form your own conclusions and insights. Agree, or disagree Heidegger's work is worthy of the effort. Be "Ready of hand".
And ignore this video. The narration is garbage and explain practically nothing about Heidegger or his ideas. It's an embarrassment. The video brought up the names of some of his concepts without understanding them at all. Watching this video will give you a totally mistaken idea of Heidegger - not even the simplified version.
as a person who haven't read much on philosophy do you still recommend it to me? Will I be able to grasp the ideas of the book?
@Nuclearcx at least he is trying. Could you contribute anything better before criticizing?
it all reads like math to me, if you're bad at math (like me) have someone who understands this shit hold your hand lol i have that and i'm still like...what ht efuck
I don't think you've grasped what it is for something to be ready-at-hand
Stop giving up the lion's share of our life to impress people who never really liked us in the first place.
Reminds you Fight Club, doesn't it?
:)
As Morrissey sang 'why do I give valuable time, to people who don't care if I live or die?'
wungabunga
and I’d much rather kick in the eye.
@@wungabunga Never go to them, Let them come to you, Just like I do, Just like I do.
This channel is honestly becoming one of my favorites. Your videos are golden!
The Zürich newspaper "Tages Anzeiger" has led me here. It praised the eloquency of these videos, that they would manage to portray in a concise nutshell the most important ideas of some of the most important philosophers. I am deligthed to see that it definitely is so. Oh, how great an art reasoning can be ! Thank you for translating these huge and voluminous concepts into the media of our current fast and frenetic time. Very great work!
+The School of Life
Ooops... "opening a branch in Zürich" - are you a religious sect? Scientology?
No, excuse me, I don't want to be prejudiced. But: What is your motivation? What is your financial foundation? Who is financing you with what goal?
+ONeirda I, I, I think they might be a school
It is rather impressive how this channel manages to make even Heidegger into a self-help-course. Funny as a New Age phenomenon, but doubt Heidegger would have been glad about it.
Like he was not depressed enough already. Nietzsche was also rather exceptional at stating his points in provocative ways that can easily be misinterpreted. “God is dead” works almost better when you do not understand his definition of God. There Heidegger’s hardly understandable and untranslatable terminology have saved him from most pop-culturalization. Without studying, quotes like “Die welt weltet” are almost equally impossible to understand and misunderstand.
So true. Just that way in which Heidegger's nazi-tendencies are dismissed as a shortlived mistake by this video. His thought was throughout his life deeply engaged with the metaphysical part of National Socialism.
But instead of understanding Heidegger within his intellectual time, he is morally cleansed by being pulled into the 21st century’s life-improving-ethics. Even though he did not write ethics and therefore had no need for moral rescue in the first place. All of which is ironically antiheideggerian.
I'm enjoying watching you two agree with each other
Almost all literature comes from a standpoint of self-help. He didn't write his words for no reason, he wanted to invite people to live more authentic lives.
Wouldn't Heidegger simply view it as his work going in to shadow? :)
Indeed, 42 is the meaning of life. That one made me chuckle.
And this comment has 42 likes. 😂
Why is there 42 though in the video?
@@yashagrawal88it’s a reference to Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. There’s a part in it that says 42 is “the answer to everything”, kind of as a random gag. People held onto it
I appreciate this focused, and no-nonsense Heidegger summary. I think it is valuable to people at any stage of study.
Just found Heidegger.
Philosophy just gets better and better 💗
Thank u S of L.
I love how the number 42 showed up when it was talking about the meaning of our lives.
that freaking dot that looks like a stain on my screen was driving me crazy
You ARE crazy!
Have so enjoyed the series introducing the great philosophers on the Philosophers' Mail and love the UA-cam channel. Keep it coming!
Alain de Botton I don't know how much work went into creating these videos but they are brilliant, this one especially. Your creativity really has no limits. Enough Gerede, I just wanted to say thank you!
As an Archaeologist with a BA in Fine Arts and a master in Architecture and have been studying the concept of space and being, Heidegger is simply incredible. He was a genius.
me too. heidegger is amazing. heidegger makes me think of miles van der rohe.
And a nazi sadly, so he wasn't as clever as one would like to think
I remember reading Heidegger with the intent to grasp phenomenology and it was like getting beat to death with words. Sein und Zeit is easily the most difficult thing I have ever read. It is also one of the most useful.
I love Heidegger, his philosophy is so practical in many ways, yet deep, sometimes very confusing, but based on very grounded fundamentals of existence. I feel like the world is a totally different place after exploring his ideas. Great job on this video.
I've been bingewatching these videos because I've really gotten into philosophy again and what else am I gonna do in quarantine and I just want to say: your German pronunciation is really good! And thanks for these videos, they do kind of keep me sane.
These kind of philosophy never ceases to make me appreciate life.
"Why we're here rather than there!"
This made me smile.
4:36
"The best books are the ones that tell us what we already know."
I'm inclined to agree.
of all the subscriptions i have yours enlighten me the most, every time. I really like this channel. Thanks from India
I just found your channel. Thank you for enlightning me on things I wanted to understand, but did not know where to start. I linked your page to my FB. Grats on a great channel, and hope it grows like a weed!
He also wrote quite a bit about architecture and how our built world affects how we live, I particularly like his writings about "dwelling"; that existing within house is not the same as _living_ in a house. To dwell is to develop a personal relationship with your house: the house should help you personally feel alive.
Martin Heidegger (and his wife) never "saw the error of [their] ways" in regard to Nazism, as far as we know. They remained defenders of nazism until their death. I don't understand why you would claim otherwise? - that aside, he is, nevertheless, one of the greatest modern philosophers in my oppinion. Sein und Zeit is a masterpiece although his language is a bit tedious.
Yes, Heideggers contribution to philosophy is often overwhelmed by the fact that he was a member of the Nazi party and did not denounce his involvement. Regarding the significance of a philosopher's biography he said in 1924 at a lecture on Aristotle referring to what Plato says in "The Sophist" (Stephanus, 246d): "Bei der Persönlichkeit eines Philosophen hat nur das Interesse: Er wurde dann und dann geboren, er arbeitete und starb," which would translate as follows: "The only topic of interest in the life of a philosopher is the fact the he was born and worked and died." And the point is clear: it seems fair to look into the mind of the philosopher by examining what he says and thinks disregarding his circumstances of his political involvement - rather than to make prejudiced opinions FOR or AGAINST his philosophy without even having read and understood his thought.
I've noticed many try to make philosophers more politically correct than they truly were to rationalize it to normies. Sad.
The man preached about how to take control over the influence that our context has on us. The fact that he couldn't resist being polluted by the context of his time despite living in a remote area makes me lose credibility in his philosophy.
Fortunately Sartre integrated this philosophy in every aspect of his life thus showing the effects it has on one's personal, sexual, professional and civic life. That's inspiring!
There is already a great separation between thoughts and actions and it's hard enough to bridge to provide a good filter of thoughts.
Privately he called it the most stupid mistake of his life.
Lord Protector Oliver Cromwell where do you get that from?
amazing, I keep watching it again and again for reminders, thanks
Really thought-provoking. Thank you for this wonderful video.
My favorite philosopher
I wish my high-school-aged-self had been introduced to Heidegger for two reason: 1) I probably would have spared my later self much heart ache, suffering, and wasted time and 2) I would have taken my more advanced German classes (4 & 5) much more seriously.
This was well done. The web of being is an ancient concept. It's refreshing to hear a philosopher discuss it.
Absolutely well done... and further to Garreth Koslowski's comments for those of us who have an appreciation, for example, Volga Deutsche, for the emphasis you put into the German words. Super!
Germany has most number of coolest philosophers.
Maybe Germany has more cool philosophers in number, but the very coolest were French.
Philosophers, engineers, architects, scientists, artists, poets, writers, musicians etc. - the Aryans! Come to think about it, may be some truth to the whole 'superiority thing' after all, may there not?
Ablejack Courtney came to say just this!
I GUESS YOU DONT KNOW ABOUT INDIAN PHILOSOPHERS
German thinkers also admired Islam, the greatest poet of Germany was a Muslim (goethe)
Also: it should be noted that Heidegger unfortunately never actually "saw the error of his ways" regarding his involvement with Nazism. His values shifted in the post-war era, but he never renounced his involvement in the Nazi party before he died.
At least not publicly; and his shift did change a bit sooner than the post-war era. Nonetheless he is definitely not completely free from antisemitism and nazism
@@Mr-fy6zbAnd for good reason, national socialism did present a solution to the increasing globalization that was taking place in the modern world, and misplacing Germans from their true authentic self. German soil and Volk had to be protected from all parasites that threatened its being.
Kudos to the speaker for the best non-native German pronunciation I've heard so far.
Such a great philosopher; complicated as much as extraordinary
You got the pronounciation of the german words on point like a native tongue! Big ups!!
I would think he does as Alain de Botton is Swiss born and speaks both French and German fluently.
1. Hegel is less comprehensible than Heidegger.
2. Heidegger never renounced Nazism.
@@dreamdiction there was bound to be one of you idiots in this comment section
@@turdfergeson8641 I hate people like you who think they're smart but are actually stupid.
@@dreamdiction o/
@@poisonsquid37 calling a Nazi an idiot is not a very pretentious thing to say...
@J ronnn for someone who likely considers themselves the "master race" that was a pretty low iq comment mate
I love his outlook. That was pretty deep.
This video helped me immensely in my metaphysics exam.
Thank u so much.
As someone coming to Heidegger for the first time I feel like he is re-articulating Taoism.
I've said the same thing but comparing stoicism to taoism... yet even existentialism from heidegger and the like seems to overlap that venn diagram of philosophy.
My wish is to date and eventually marry a bisexual philosophical and spiritual woman.
@@cartergomez5390 Amen
Heidegger had a lot of admiration for Suzuki and in fact, on his work “On the way to Language”, he referenced the Dao by name as the best translation of his notion for “Way”. So you are not far off with this feeling!
"Martin Heidegger is without doubt the most incomprehensible german philosopher that ever lived"
Hegel: "Am I a joke to you?"
After hours of research this is probably the best "snapshot" of Martin's philosophy
Though I don't know him, I believe I have all of Alain's published materials, and IMO this is one of the most useful and inspiring short summaries he's done to date, of meaningful content of an historical wake-up-now philosopher, practical and applying to this very day, right now: yes you can escape, and here's how to do it. Alain is so helpful as a current day philosopher because of his subtracting useful content from books and paragraphs of theoretical bafflegab with its presumed profundity. Recall that Carl Sagan was dissed as a popularizer, yet time has shown that those who dissed him deserved it most as being the worthless ones who brought no value to the culture.
This is heavily skewed towards his existentialism, and away from his phenomenology
Existentialism is a way more popular branch of philosophy, moreover it is aimed more at wider audiences, whilst phenomenology would be more useful to examine being a scientist or philosopher yourself
ya one of reasons why husserl said dat martin betrayed him LOL
Im pretty sure Heidegger denies existentialism.
@@mariog1490 Evola considers him an existentialist
@@George-jd6fz it’s usually pretty bad though when someone denies the label himself. As he said, if Sartre is an existentialist, I’m out! 😂
This video was uploaded in 2014. I used to understand philosophy in an intellectual way. 2020 I'm living it. Living for myself. Giving myself so much love so I can love others. An empty stomach can not feed others 🙏❤
No better explaination of Existentialism found anywhere but here.
Thank you very much. Much appreciated
I LOVED THIS. The art direction was genius - germane but funny image choices - hats off!
Connecting with a philosopher's work is a little like falling in love with them, and Heidegger is one of my all time biggest crushes - thanks for creating this piece.
Please consider Wittgenstein next... surely one would struggle to find a thinker more relevant for the age of 140 characters or fewer than the man who said "the limits of my language mean the limits of my world!"
Can you make a video about Hannah Arendt? 😁
Punk
They were in a sexual relationship ?
Long Nards
She actually looked like a man and older than him I noticed in the pics.
"Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts ? Das ist die Frage."- "Why is there´Seiendes´instead of nothing? That is the question.- Martin Heidegger- (""Seiendes"= a term of the Heideggerian Terminology. "Sein" is the infinitive of "to be" and is thus translated as the verbal substantive "being" in English. "Seiendes" is a participial substantive meaning "beings-in-general" or"beings-at-all". Compare also with the ancient greek terms οὐσία , πᾶσα ἡ οὐσία and γένεσις .)
What a truly fantastic video. Thanks for this!
The simplification of Heidegger's theory in the end with german words was lovely.
I loved this guy in Final Fantasy VII.
Hey, it's the guy who gave you shit for your German pronunciation on the video on Nietzsche. It's actually pretty fantastic on this one! As is the video, as it always is actually.
This is pretty terrific-you've really hit the important stuff and saved readers months/ years of mystification.
I would say that they left out some rather important stuff and depriving readers of profound insight.
Awesome Alain, love your content and following since I saw your TED talk last year on Success. If you ever visit Thailand please let me know!
Would love to see a video on Levinas.
He never refrained from Nazism thou...
Very good channel! I want more philosophers sketches like this!
Loving the contiguity of the speech, "it would be lying to say...", with the picture of Sir Tony Blair. Glad that there are others who will never forget, despite what they think. My theyself is heartened!
Wtf. Heidegger is amazing. He's so profound that makes me wanna dive into his mind.
Enter the Nazi mind.
This is a really solid video, especially in terms of condensing a lot of really difficult concepts into a short but substantive video. But I think it’s important to note that this is a VERY second wave reading - which isn’t to say it is WRONG, but it is one school of interpretation of his oeuvre, and one that tends to apply a moralizing stance to his concepts in B&T. Again, not necessarily bad! But if you’re interested, there are alternative interpretations.
So liberating...Excellent!
I love how you put 42 up when you mentioned “the meaning of our lives. I love Douglas Adams. :)
Heidegger is one philosopher whose ideas we can sometimes resolve without ever hearing his name
Martin Heidegger is one of the greatest intellectual capacities of the 20th century - whose contribution to philosophy is often overwhelmed by the fact that he was a member of the Nazi party and did not denounce his involvement. BUT to the significance of a philosopher's biography he said in 1924 at a lecture on Aristotle referring to what Plato says in "The Sophist" (Stephanus, 246d): "Bei der Persönlichkeit eines Philosophen hat nur das Interesse: Er wurde dann und dann geboren, er arbeitete und starb," which would translate as follows: "The only topic of interest in the life of a philosopher is the fact the he was born and worked and died." And the point is clear: it seems fair to look into the mind of the philosopher by examining what he says and thinks disregarding his circumstances of his political involvement - rather than to make prejudiced opinions FOR or AGAINST his philosophy without even having read and understood his thought.
Love your videos!
Thank you
Omg that was amazing. I was hoping for a good explanation on Heidegger. What I got was fantastic. Thanks
The School of Life: A video on Maurice Merleau Ponty please!
To everyone who wishes to understand Heidegger at his core, my father, Christopher Fynsk, put out one of the most cohesive and important works on Heidegger's philosophy to date: "Thought and Historicity". Derrida himself commended (and ripped from) his ability to insert the human being back into Being in his understanding of Heidegger's approach his later works such as "Letter on humanism". Zizek called it "The most deliberate and authentic work on Heidegger to date"
Very cool. With this background, what’s your take on the summary here?
@@nevermind0143As with most School of Life videos (and most UA-cam videos on philosophy), this video is an extremely simplified version of what can only be properly represented by the work itself or something even more extensive than the source material. In the case of Heidegger, this could not be more true. It is very evident that the creator of this video has not actually read Heidegger before. What he has provided are the first two chapters of Being and Time - albeit, and as always, an extremely simplified version of it. I am quite suspicious that he picked most of this up from Wikipedia, which consequently very evidently picked most of its material of from an American theorist named Hubert Dreyfus, who famously never read the second half of Being and Time (the part on Time…) because he felt it was irrelevant. Besides, Heidegger wrote far more than Being and Time - it is not even his greatest work, despite being so popular. So much of what is said in Being and Time (an early work of his) is refuted by his later and sometimes greater works - for instance, his work on Parmenides. He begins to step beyond a metaphysics of subjectivity. And THAT is the true complexity of Heidegger. Of course, I would strongly recommend Being and Time, not only to those interested in Heidegger, but to all interested in Philosophy whatsoever! I’d be happy to help with any questions you might have.
This is a great channel. Thank you folks! Helped a lot for my paper.
Great job! Extremely helpful!
This video doesn't really get to the meat of what Heidegger said at all.
Please elaborate.
He's telling you to do yoga
Should do a video on Max Stirner next
loved that Hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy reference, the meaning of life, 42
THIS IS one of the most usefull chanell for young people and not so young people too on youtube :)
thank you :)
As an austrian, the first time I ever heard of Heidegger, was in the Anime Steins:Gate... What does that say about his popularity in his own linguisitic area?
Its kind of nuts that the guy concerned with not following the crowd then followed the Nazi's.
Great and interesting man. This man taught us how to worship the now and grasp our treasures with infinite intensity. Our jobs and daily routines can put a limit on our ability to enjoy our being 100-percent. The overcoming to egoism, very interesting concept. The truth will set us free.
Thanks for this great and consice introduction to Martin Heidegger!
I constantly feel the strangeness and oneness of everything. It's very disorienting and gives me anxiety. I don't feel particularly enlightened. Not sure why this is happening, as I've never done drugs. I seem to have just thought myself into it.
One cannot control their own thoughts, don't feel bad about it
That's very interesting ;)
what you are experiencing is the reality underpinning the inauthenticity of your own life. It feels strange to you because you are a conditioned being, like the majority, when you strip away the ego shell and its false selves you can see the world around you as it really is, dont run away from it, embrace it, its the truth, the conditioned existence most people live is a lie which they only discover as they approach death and the ego can no longer maintain its struggle to control who you are. The more of these videos I watch the more apparent to me it is that all western philosophy is based in eastern ideas. Try reading the Vedanta, Baghavad Gita, the upanishads and the dhamapada, continue to unconditon yourself and you wil find complete freedom. The secret of the golden flower is an excellent book (thomas cleary version) listen to some alan watts who gives a relatable western picture of zen. You can free yourself from the mind and all its anxieties, depressions, moods, you just need to practice. Remember you are not your mind, nor the contents of it.
Gort Roxx Alan Watts...agreed. Easily digestible if you're already in the vicinity.
I see the strangeness and am constantly struck by the perplexity of being. It fill my eyes with tears of joy. The width and seemingly infinite depth of the lake of being, makes my heart feel as though it will burst through my chest. I love it. I feel enlightened.
It is better to go to a house of mourning than to go to a house of feasting, for death is the destiny of everyone; the living should take this to heart.. Ecc. 7:2
***** and yet. You're as powerless as fiction
unappropadope Fiction is not powerless, so...
Sasa Aguila Hercules can fight me and show me I'm wrong
How is this discussion even slightly relevant to the video? Why do we get fundamentalist trolls and fundamentalist atheists preaching their theology wherever there is a discussion of "ideas"?
Philosophy and theology are two different fields, people! And that doesn't mean philosophers are a bunch of "fence-sitting agnostics" either! In the same way you wouldn't want your physician playing Halo on the computer he uses to write your prescriptions, it doesn't make sense to discuss theology in the context of Philosophy.
Dylan O'Brien
"fundamentalist atheists" hahahahahaha you're a joke.
That really helps you make sense of everyday life.
Fascinating, wise and surprisingly useful.
Saw the error of his ways? He never did...
Cinqmil Yeah, exactly. He was a nazi until death and never renounced his affiliation.
+Illya Van Hoof
_I don't believe there is any inherent value or meaning to existence_ I could prove you wrong in your assertions, but that would mean we have to meet and I have to bring my chainsaw with me. It won't take that long to prove my point, I am sure of it. Unfortunately I'm more of an introvert, and I"d rather be on my own. I would definitely decline. You could off course decide to slit your own wrists, maybe you come to the same conclusions and gain enlightenment that way.
_What's wrong with nazism???_ Are you goddamn kidding me??? Only a person without any imagination would ask this. "The nazis are ok, because they never hurt me." Fuck off.
+Illya Van Hoof I like ontological nihilism, don't get me wrong. But I think Cinqmil's point is that, regardless of a priori wonder about 'inherent meaning' and other plagues of the narcissistic human mind, we have mechanisms built into us called instincts that make us want to reiterate our existence, ya know, survival instincts. Our consciousness is what nihilism is really calling out. And so, it doesn't prove value or meaning, but proves inherent intention, which, you could argue, humanity mistook as meaning. I guess the point I'm making is that, of course there is no value or meaning, but that certainly doesn't imply a reason to stop existing. Which would make people, such as the Nazis, who stopped people from existing 'bad'.
+Cinqmil I was just about to post this comment. Heidegger never openly regretted his affiliation with the Nazi party.
Not this shit again.
**hears someone sneeze**
_"Sein und zeit!"_
hilarious graphics!
and very helpful commentary...
Wonderfully explained! Thank you Alain and others! And I've just learned that I have the same passion as Heidegger did - graveyards :D :))
Excellent. Now, I'm an expert on Heideggerian Existentialism
Ehhh, you're an expert on a summary of Heideggerian Existentialism. There's a lot this video didn't cover, then again, hard not to be vague when you're condensing Being and Time and other life works in not even 5:23. An example of this is the video's explanation of Dasein - its not just being, but its being, AND the processes in which that being goes about the world. To better explain what that means.... would take a long while and a mastery of Heideggerian terms I don't have. Go to your local college and talk to a philosophy professor. Enjoy the headache and newfound mid-life crisis.
wanderingdude777 did you ever hear of sarcasm?
Uncle Theodor Its the internet! Anyone can be serious about anything!
I don't want to sound shallow or something, but when i sum up his thoughts on life it comes down to the simple widely recognised and hated popculture phrase - yolo. Or am i mistaking :-) ?
This is the first I have heard about Heidegger, I love his philosophy and want to know more. an excellent introduction, thank you! Subscribed.
While the basic principles of his philosophy may be interesting, not all of his thoughts were great. He was a HUGE proponent of the Nazi Regime. He didn't just pretend to like them, like many German intellectuals during that time, but actually agreed with most of their ideas and actively engaged in them. And I can't really see how "he saw the error of his ways". There have been assessments and evaluations of his behaviour during and after the Nazi regime by people like Karl Jaspers that said otherwise. Heidegger's ideas should be viewed very critically.
@@seb0rn739 thanks for that, it changes things quite a bit!
A theory is great. But then lets see how things are when tested in reality.
It reminded me of Alain de Botton's "The Consolations of Philosophy" It was also easy to understand, hopeful and inspiring. As a 2nd year philosophy major from Turkey I really appreciate it. Thank you! :)
Interesting, because Botton is the guy behind this School of Life stuff.
Ok. :(
You are being much to kind to Heidegger in simply stating: At one time he’d been a supporter of Hitler but saw the error of his ways. In fact, Heidegger remained a member of the Nazi Party until the very end of World War II!
I tend to agree.
For the sake of reconciliation there is acceptance that people did support hitler and lost the war, so we'll give them another chance and pretend theyve reformed.
Honestly though...
And I dont think anyone except the clueless class of people globally can claim to be innocent in anything, let alone the population that was enraptured by Hitler. And then ignorance of the law is not defense!
"Death? Haaaa, I'm not scared of death.
Deaths been running from me my entire life and I've finaly caught the bastard.
So my nemesis, so my greatest enamy,
Death?!?!
Are you ready to end my story
Because I allready am"
4:25 Ha! A picture of Bliar coinciding with the word 'lying'. Bravo!
These are amazing videos. They pack a TON of knowledge into few minutes.
He never renounce his National Socialism untl the end of his life he remain true to those beliefs.
"We should simply aim to spend more time in graveyards."
What does he mean by this?
Mark Joshua Miguel I always felt like it was not just death that he wanted people to dwell on. It's the fact that we are, by the nature of life, finite. You can make a vague argument about impacts on society living on, but your experience in the world as you are will end. Period. Because it's not just the difference between you sitting alone waiting for lunch, and you sitting alone waiting for your friend who's supposed to show up to lunch. It's the difference between you living as you are, and you living knowing that you have three months left to live.
Which can be shortened to hang out in a graveyard.
Because there are a lot of people that lived, did things, and died. All they were and all that's left of their brief glimpse of the world is some signatures, some documents, and the stories that people still tell. Also some genes, but how much of you is in that helix is up for debate and that's only if they had kids. But that's your fate too. So live. Not because you've been told how to live, or you think it will make you happy, but it actually makes you happy.
Which is probably a little sunnier than anything he ever said. Fine details...
Mark Joshua Miguel Actually "Memento Mori" is quite interesting sentence and interdependent with Mr. Heidegger's philosophy.
Mark Joshua Miguel impermanence. to realize that we are temporary so we could stop living for they-self and start living your life for your self.
Mark Joshua Miguel He meant it literally. Graveyards are very good for thinking about how to be authentic because a lot of them are very quiet.
Mark Joshua Miguel It reminded me of a quote from Louis C.K. He says: "You are going to be dead for WAY longer than you're alive. That's mostly what you're even gonna be. Like, you're just dead people that haven't died yet."
Das ist sehr gut! Thoroughly enjoyed that short clip; see eye to eye with him 100pc!!! :D
Thank you for this!