Heidegger: Being and Time

Dada was the mirror image of the Vienna Circle; both were concerned with the claims of reason after the spiritual apocalypse of WWI. Dada and the Vienna Circle were spiritual inverses, intellectual bookends. Reason was diabolical or angelic, making perfect sense the ultimate achievement or the ultimate disgrace. Dada had a sense of humor, amoral and daft but sometimes amusing, while the logical positivists were unintentionally funny because after all their ponderous Wagnerian gestures about perfect linguistic precision, the permanent achievement of an ultimate Cartesian clarity, these intellectual Bismarcks who intended to unify science rather than Germany were blindsided. Those who wrote manifestoes for a “strong” unification of all the sciences and the derivation of all mathematics from logic got a pie in the face from the all too rigorous Godel and another from Heisenberg and his unruly electrons. This jellied their rigorous precision into a gooey perspectival pragmatism and a new low calorie epistemology appeared on the intellectual menu: American pragmatism, or Positivism in Aspic, like Dewey or Rorty. Yet Carnap and his science touts did some good. Logical positivism might be thought of as an attempt by a Viennese science worship cult to algorithmically bid all other thinkers to stop pretending they were talking. In the case of Heidegger, given his influence and complicity with the Nazi regime, this was arguably a noble aspiration.
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• (Time Stamps)
3:55 - Ontology
5:35 - Heidegger’s issue with Ontology
6:31 - Plato’s view of being and our local understanding of it contrasted with our lack of understanding of it as a whole
7:52 - Heidegger’s approach to understanding “being”
8:45 - What it’s like to be Human
10:06 - What it is to be a Human Being
14:10 - Heidegger’s View of Being

• (Interesting Assertions)
10:51- Man ought to Authentically “Be”
11:58 - To be a Human Being is to contextualize the world and attribute meaning to it
13:33 - I’m calling you back to yourselves
13:45 - “Being” not “being” has a strong homology to God
14:15 - Gospel story of the rich young man

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[vKarl]

Studying Heidegger with the great Dr Joseph P. Fell was a spectacular highlight of my college career. It was completely mind-blowing. The excitement in the room was unforgettable. The validity of Heidegger's work was confirmed for me by the fact that he ultimately started to think in a way entirely compatible with the teachings of Buddha, the ultimate thinker. Both investigated the meaning of human life, and how to live, as deeply as they possibly could.
"Do not let the little Beings of the world distract you from the big Being." Well put, Dr Sugrue.

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This was best lecture on Heidegger that helped me to understand and first lecture I watched by Michael Sugrue. RIP

[lupintheth]

Rest in peace professor. I just finished this lecture, which is the first I watched. I especially enjoyed the commentary from a Christian perspective.

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I hope Darren Staloff uploads his lectures. I remember watching a great lecture he gave on Spinoza and freedom.

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