Martin Heidegger - Introduction to Metaphysics (1/4)

Martin Heidegger was a 20th century German philosopher who concerned himself almost exclusively with the question of 'Being' his whole life.

Introduction to Metaphysics is a lecture course Heidegger presented at the University of Freiburg in the summer semester of 1935. Contrary to the title of the course, Heidegger actually seeks to go beyond metaphysics (the beings of beings, hence still concerned with beings) to the ground of Being itself. He attempts to provide some insight into Being by comparing it with becoming, seeming, thinking, and the ought, and in doing so, explains how Plato and Aristotle knocked genuine inquiry into Being off the rails, where it has remained since, waiting for Heidegger to bring it to the fore once again.

This video is part of a series which looks at Heidegger's work post-Being and Time as he tries to fathom the mystery that is Being itself.

Oh, and my written summary of Introduction to Metaphysics (which this video series is based on) can be downloaded from the Heidegger page of my website:

[TheDavddd]

"this questioning is a repetition and retrieval of the inception of our da-sein, in order to transform it into another inception and this is a new more original beginning. A happening that grounds history and you" WOW

[oliviaeblin]

This was very helpful for my Metaphysics class! Thank you!

[thescapegoatmechanism]

Take a drink every time Heidegger says Being

[rapidopato]

In his Black Notebooks he also opposed History to HIstoriography.

[seanmaclean]

Would you mind doing Ideas by Husserl? 🤔 been an active viewer of yours for about a year now and it just occurred to me that you havent covered the "original" phenomenologist. Would absolutely love if you did this one day! 🙏🏼😌