Episode #102 ... Heidegger pt. 3 - Authenticity

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Thank you for making the show possible. 🙂 Today we talk about Martin Heidegger and his concept of Authenticity.

Thank you for wanting to know more today than you did yesterday. :)

[spiderlandmemes]

this guys has 3 balls, one extra for the analysis and simplifying. Well done 🔥🔥🔥👏

[burakhelvacoglu]

i was studying heidegger for my final exam and now i stop studying and really thinking. thank a lot for introducing him

[Khason]

Wise snippets near the end of the video. Thank you very much Steven West. :)

[RedShipsofSpainAgain]

Love this truth on living authentically as a dasein: "...[the way most people talk with each other is] more idle chatter, rather than actual speech. The same way you see science as curiosity, rather than actual understanding..."

[wcropp]

Great introduction to Heidegger’s thought. You may just be the “Hardcore History” for philosophy. That’s a very good thing, IMO. Keep it up!

[alexcherfan]

I'm gonna die??


Loving this content man, been binging your videos for about a week or two now. I love the way in which you present these complex ideas I've been ruminating for years on. Thank you!

[makeshiftaltruist]

I always feel isolated in conversation. Just last night I got in an argument with someone about what a lie is. To them, simply being wrong or ill-informed, is to be lying. I contested that there has to be a willful aspect of misdirection or deception for them to be lying.

[eman]

The final sentence was really powerful.

[jimmylin]

Wow. Really amazing pod there, felt like it was much less than 31 minutes!
This is the first vid of your channel that I encounter, and I definitely think you should have more followers! Amazing content!

[rodrigodiazcasas]

Authenicity: to live a conscious life. Inauthenticity: to live in automatic pilot.

[Elle-izmy]

Sir, you just saved me from failing my Heidegger philosophy class. I owe my degree to you, cheers.

[rdcoastnyucka]

Best explanation of Heidegger I've ever heard. Thank you; I'll be listening to this again.

[rabbychan]

My intense journey into authenticity began after having watched Westworld.

It may sound ridiculous because it's all just scripted dialogue/monologue but it left a huge impact on me, the outstanding acting by Hopkins and Harris probably helped!

[mtsu]

Than you for another great episode. Heidegger is much more enjoyable after this. I also think you should provide predatory buffalo T-shirts in your merchandise.

[gazrater]

Excellent, thank you Steve I am just trying to get a grip of Heidegger at the minute and this view has been very useful to me. Thank you much appreciate and a great overview as I plough through Being and Time and The Question Concerning Technology along with other key works.

[gamingandgunpla]

Late to the party. phenomenally articulated to be digestible. Well done sir.

[jackquinnes]

Spend more time on grave yards is nice since grave yards are peaceful, beautiful, historical, serene places to stroll idle listening to the singing of birds but for the noble purpose of becoming more authentic in the sense of more acutely aware of the tangible reality of life with an absolute end point meaning death I will raise stakes and correct the late Heidegger and suggest: spend more time with dying persons in hospitals etc. Measure death face to face, watching the last breaths of human beings, the last glances of half-blind dim eyes, last sounds coming out of a dry mouth of a person you love... this is it. Become yourself and then return to the place you once called home.

[moreadagio]

Great podcast! Love the ending. Hopefully in the future you might do a series on the later Heidegger and his thinking on poetry and thought? Heidegger's ambivalent relationship with the Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan is worth exploring. Celan poetized, thought, and lived in awareness of death. One could say Celan spent "more time in graveyards", philosophically speaking, than the average person. Celan and authenticity would be a great topic on its own.

[televisioninventor]

This is a fantastic podcast series, Stephen, no question about it. But I'm surprised that you can't see how Heidegger's support for Nazism could arise so naturally from his philosophy. Surely the appeal of populist demagogues - the appeal of their philosophies, such as they are - owes a lot to their straight-talking authenticity, usually espousing a nostalgic and often nativist vision of a more authentic world of the past to which, for our own sanity, we should want to return - that is, those of us with an authentic (i.e. ancestral, native) connection to that past world. That was the appeal of Nazism to so many Germans, as it seems to have been for Heidegger. Perhaps I'm being simplistic, but it strikes me that, for all his intellectual sophistication, Heidegger was at best colossally naive about the implications of this doctrine of authenticity, and at worst dishonest about those implications. Or perhaps belief in Nazism in this philosophy of being is absolutely fine as long as that belief is authentically held. Such a position is now again becoming increasingly, and worryingly, mainstream. It needs more intellectual critique than it gets and more than you give it here.

[kognitiveresonanz]

thank you for this series! It is influential for my further studies