Martin Heidegger, What Is Metaphysics | Nothing, Selfhood, and Freedom | Philosophy Core Concepts

This Core Concept video focuses on Martin Heidegger's lecture "What Is Metaphysics?" and examines his exposition of the relationship of what he terms "the Nothing", and the freedom and selfhood of Dasein, or human being.

In our action, our choices, and even in our very way of being, we are, as Heidegger says, held out into the Nothing. And we engage in nihilitative comportments, behaviors, or attitudes, as our way of being in the world.

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[lordtains]

Thank you Dr. Sadler, I have been grappling with this essay for a while now.. I'm still struggling with the phrase "being held into the nothing." He doesn't really explain what he means with this, how can I understand it? How do we "hold ourselves into the nothing"?

[strato]

Is it correct in thinking that 'being' is a vertical Dasein which encompasses temporal and abstract phenomenon in the same totality? Imagine a tall cylinder. At the middle there is a 'point of synthesis' Where above the line is abstract thought and below it is embodied action. Is this what he is describing as metaphysics? Or is he talking about outside of the universe - As in the inch beyond the edge of the expanding universe?

Thanks for the lecture.

[sohamrane]

This was brilliant! Thank you so much!

[travelwithsteve]

So does authenticity come from using our freedom to act out the version of ourselves that we think is most virtuous? Is authenticity just living our best possible selfhood? Living our best life?