HEIDEGGER PART 1 BY GEORGE PATTISON

[wierdpocket]

Wonderful and insightful. Thank you St John's for putting these up, and thanks George Pattison for the great overview here.

[Maplehurst]

As interpreted here Dasein appears to be graspable. The Professor's eloquence on his subject is admirable.

[fraidoonw]

thanks! Heidegger was in the world, he left a legacy, he left the world.So he is there.

[wiltonhall]

Pattison at 17:00 introduces the term Dasein in the best way I have ever encountered. Don't miss this, it will unlock a much deeper understanding.

[tonybklyn]

An engrossing and excellent presentation of Heidegger's thinking.

[donoflee]

Given that Professor Pattison is attempting the impossible, a comprehensive overview of Professor Heidegger's work in under 50 minutes,  this presentation is worth viewing if you're new to Heidegger.  That said, I think I've spotted two errors in the presentation.  Or rather than call them errors, they are over simplification to the point they they mislead.

[tatsumakisempyukaku]

15:18 “do we even know what the question of being means?”

When I read Plato’s Parmenides, I believe at the end of the 1st hypothesis, it says what NOTHINGNESS itself is. Which if correct or approximately right, is the opposite to being.

[TheJojoaruba]

Thank you for this educational content.

[Contextcatcher]

Very strange Hannah Arendt didn't show up in this introduction. Her Dasein in his life was crucial.

[stndsure]

It is hard to talk about 'Being' to a population of non-adults addicted to electronic devices and to 'Self'.

[t.k.nosworthy]

Disappointing not to have the full interview...I appreciated the professor's unusual interpretation of "Dasein"

[Tapas]

If philosophers who deal with basic metaphysical questions are reduced to mere sociological and political products of their time and judged by that - like too many are doing with Heideggers connection to nazis 1933, then there is no more philosophy, and it simply confirms Heideggers critique om modern Europe. Then one also question Sokrates, who was clearly against democracy, an understanding that opposes clearly our whole western civilization today.
If someone tries to reduce Heideggers thinking and contribution to a support to nazism then those who claim that are not qualified to comment on philosophy because they do not understand what it is and which relevanse it has. They should simple do their sociology.
So many people were relatively innocently sympthazing with nazism in the beginning of 1930' s and later taking distance.
Whatever connection and wrongdoing Heidegger did with nazis was already processed in the german academical field after the war and Heidegger was reinstated as a lecturer in Germany. So once and for all this issue is processed and done, and if one cannot digest or accept that, one may consider one is a victim of the concept of eternal hell and condemnation, which unfortunately very much rules the very nonphilosoohical culture of political correctness of midern times, which Heidegger warned against: The end of philosophy, not more profound thinklng, depp questioning, just cybernetics of on-off, correct or condemned.

[KevinSolway]

Philosophy doesn't have to be boring. It can deal with important issues rather than trivia, and it can be about real things rather than fantasies.

[edwardstudor]

I agree. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

[vampireducks]

I agree you didn't need to talk for so long about Heidegger's life (stuff anyone can look up if they're interested). So why did you?

[ronrice]

"Only a god can save us" sounds fascist to me.

[edwardstudor]

Well, there are plenty of cartoons on You Tube, so why grumble?

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[holenewman]

Not wishing to come across as a philistine; nevertheless I can't but feel at times what is being explained and imparted as some great revelation the philosopher has to say about the human condition, is no more than the "bleeding obvious"! (Wittgenstein included). Maybe philosophy is not for me- just a thought.

[mensabs]

There's no understanding of Heidegger here.