Hubert Dreyfus: Heidegger Being and Time lecture 1 (1/3)

Filmed at UC Berkeley 2006

[joelpeterson]

For the proverbial floor sitters of YouTube: the lecture proper starts at about the 20 minute mark.

[jdzentrist]

"The whole structure of Foucault is the same as the structure of Heidegger." And, "Nietzsche won out in the end." Absolutely fascinating.

[PatrickKehoe-jj]

You can just skip to 20:06 where the actual lecture/talk begins...

[TheDangerousMaybe]

Thanks so much for this, Tao. Dreyfus’ lectures on B&T changed my life. It’s so cool to have the video to go along with the audio.

[mandys]

at 15:14 begin ... before that is just housekeeping
this is a great treat! 😃😄

[nathanpoole-mccullough]

So grateful to be able to see Bert in action after yrs of listening constantly 👂

[bgmkuzu]

I'm shocked at how people came to his lecture without reading. Thank you Tao for giving us this opportunity.

[wilfridsephiroth]

Thanks Tao. I remember downloading and listening to all of these lectures in 2008 or 2009, and it was a wonderful experience. Made me love Bert as if I was his student (I did email him with a couple of questions and he replied!). It's lovely to see him like this.

[Benforeva]

This is so amazing Tao. I'm used to just the podcast audio of the lectures. What a great gift 🎁.

[davidmitnick]

Damn this was randomly recommended to me and I realized I was actually in that class that day. I forgot I even took Heidegger with Dreyfus, I thought I took some other course.

[ckae]

Thank you so much for this, Tao! This is really electrifying and has inspired me after a slump to continue doing philosophy :) Shoutout from Singapore

[pascalmassie]

Reading division I without taking into account division II is silly and leads to the perception of Heidegger as an "existentialist." Everything in Division I must be rei-interpreted in terms of temporality (the task of division II). This is why division I is explicitly called by Heidegger "preliminary." Scholarship on Heidegger's S&Z has improved greatly since Dreyfus.

[lesliecunliffe]

Dreyfus seems not to know about the poll conducted amongst professional philosophers in 1999 about which philosophical work was the most important in the 20th.c. Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations came top, followed by Heidegger's Being and Time. Many of the features Dreyfus describes as outstanding in Heidegger are also found in Wittgenstein, who worked in the analytic tradition. Contrary to Heidegger, Wittgenstein never lost his ethical compass. Lee Braver's book (2014) Groundless Grounds: a study of Wittgenstein and Heidegger, MIT Press, Cambridge, Ma.

[nurlatifahmohdnor]

Page 309




depict = (T) 1 to represent by drawing sculpture, painting, etc.; delineate; portray. 2 to represent in words; describe. [C17: from L depingere, from pingere to paint]

[stuarthicks]

Thanks for this. Do you have the rest of these lectures?

[Ben-Trad]

I assume the 25A/B isn't available online?

[adaptercrash]

We had one of those TA and he sat by the door for one day then he just walked

[jackdarby]

But nature or physis ( φύσης) is said to be perpetual, as the tree produces what has the potency to be a tree. The purpose of what is made by man is in the man that made it, i.e. what is the purpose of David—it's found in the formal cause that MachelAngelo made from the material cause and the purpose was in Machel Angelo, just as the purpose of the comment is in me.
The bed that the carpenter makes is not perpetual as from the bed there arises vegetation, plant or another tree and not another bed. The "Artificial Intelligence" is Artificial but not "intelligent" as Intelligence predicated of that which possess Intellect alone, by which it knows what kind of a thing it is, for eg. "Socrates is intelligent", "Philo is intelligent", etc.
Also, isn't it obvious that "visson" predicated of a camera, for eg. "computer vission" is no more vission than the "smartness" attributed to "phone" in "smart phone", "eros" attributed to a "video"( as in the case with pornography).
Few mistake the art or immitation to be that which it is the immitation of. Your missing 19th cen. men of logic like Boole, Mill, Frege, etc. and drawing hasty conclusions from Aristotle to "artificial intelligence" logic like grammar differs from thinker to thinker and a kind of logic emerged in 19th cen. different from ancient and even in ancient times the Stoics had some kind of logic differing again from the logic Aristotle.

[dioklezian]

When does the lecture begin? Ah about min. 20. Then there is gossip about different philosophers about Heidegger. I think Heidegger is highliy overestimated and his book "Sein und Zeit" is almost unreadable also for a German speaker. To be hardly understandable is the spleen of Heidegger. Of course he was a natsi, see his inaugural speech as dean of the university of Freiburg 1933 "Die Selbstbehauptung der deutschen Universität" (the self-assertation of the German University. You find the full English text on the internet.

[jdzentrist]

The master worker becomes "one" with his work; thus he or she is not "using" anything, but is "a part of everything." So, for me, I am not "apart from" life or others or nature or God. I am "a part of" this so-called "creation." If you should find yourself seriously depressed, and hence "apart from, " lots of help is available nowadays, for example, therapists, certain excellent new drugs, getting a job, meditating, jogging, going to church. Lots of options. As John Lennon sings/shouts, "Join the human race!" (I beleive that was in "Instant Karma."