Heidegger on Authenticity

Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, on Authenticity

[revoltagainstfear]

Greatest teacher of philosophy in the 21st century. Thanks

[pepcozz]

This video, and Heidegger by extension, come in a quite a relevant time for me! Thank you so much Prof. Bonevac, and pardon me, i have now a date with Heidegger scheduled.

[Phatdude]

This is the best explanation I’ve heard yet, thanks man!!!

[camiloarevalo]

I believe that part of the alienation of the Dasein comes from ths distinction between the object and the subject. Being in the world is not being in something that is apart from myself, like something completely opposite to my existence in the world, I'm part of it and I should be conscious about it.
Greetings from Colombia, and thanks for sharing the video.

[natalias]

Thank you Sir for easy and accessible, but how substantial lectures!!!

[AllTenThousand]

This is a very generous reading of Heidegger - the idea can easily be twisted into understanding modes of being more or less authentic, and the human expressions being worth more or less, offering some support for exterminating the inauthentic. I wish that weren't so, but explains the facts on the historical ground.

[wanderingbiku]

Because of my past, I will never be fully and honestly accepted by my world of others. It's a very lonely place at times. Great lecture and lecturer

[echoecho]

First YouTube comment ever. Thank you for everything you share!

[stripedgazelle]

I definitely took the plunge this last year.

[chardo]

We are the world. And the world is us

[ДаниилЧернов-ие]

Thank you for this lecture! Don't you think that between Heidegger's "Being in the world with others" and Ortega y Gasset's "I am me and my circumstance" there is something similar? It would be great to read/listen to your opinion.

[myla]

Interesting series of lectures so far and I plan to finish. Thank you.

However, how puzzling is this authenticity! I'm an old being (no children) so it's helped me to understand a bit better younger beings or is that Daseins?
Anyhow, how can you reject what has been "imposed" by others and at the same time plunge into yourself looking for authenticity and all this time you have to allow for others and do some caring while you are at it?
What a tall order. I should think that's worrying enough even before you set about contemplating your finitude and getting all anxious about dying. Phew.
But perhaps I've misunderstood all this. Quite possible.

I know there were certain things imposed on me at birth and as a young child and yes as I grew up and did some reflecting I managed my way out of those and imposed a few others on myself of which I liked some and didn't others. It's called muddling along.
But some, possibly many, of those "imposed" things are really a bedrock, a stable environment and society, a culture from which secure place (well, as secure as it can be) you can set off from to make your way in the world (or make a world), to reflect and make choices and do your authentic stuff. Without that bedrock you can easily flounder about and play video games all day.

[samcopeland]

I think it's a mistake to think of thrownness as only pertaining to the conditions of your birth. My thrownness at any given moment pertains to the whole of my past (and the history preceding my birth) and to the particular situation I'm in — and as these things evolve, so does my thrownness. Heidegger says that moods disclose Dasein's thrownness, and Dasein's moods change constantly. If thrownness was a once-and-for-all deal that started and ended with birth, then Dasein's moods wouldn't be changing — supposing, as Heidegger does, that moods disclose thrownness. I think you present a conception of thrownness that's much more Sartrian than Heideggerian, and thus a conception of authenticity that's much more Sartrian, i.e., voluntarist. For Heidegger, authenticity involves an embracing of finitude, which means, among other things, that Dasein is heavily determined by its thrownness as against its projection.

tldr: thrownness ≠ natality

[die_schlechtere_Milch]

13:50 - In German "end" as telos is "Zweck", whereas end as the opposite of beginning is "Ende". I do not think that Heidegger was confused about a homonymy which does not exist in his own language. (Although I am not 100% sure which words Heidegger uses in B&T here)

[kevintewey]

Crazy screaming acid-loving beer-drinking Jimmy Morrison; "into this world we're thrown, like a dog without a bone and Hector out alone. Riders on the Storm..."
The Doors

[insearchoflostthought]

I wonder how much his comments on leaving the world (I assume it’s the Umwelt? Pardon my ignorance, as I’m not yet to the point in Being and Time that you’re covering) and entering another are related to his thinking about art. As he says in The Origin of the Work of Art, the work of art creates a world. And Heidegger certainly privileges these worlds over, say, the world of the World of Warcraft video game. So, if the two texts can be put in dialogue, this seems to me to be when Hölderlin’s line (that Heidegger loves so much) “Where danger is, grows the saving power too.” Would you agree? And, if so, what is it that slows us to leave the world set up by the work of art? Is our being-in-such-a-world essentially finite, just as our being-in-the-Umwelt is? Is this perhaps part of why Heidegger privileges art: If that’s the case, then art forces us to confront our finitude in a truly explicit way.

Thank you.

[cda]

Might I ask how old you are? I am curious what you make of your student who traveled to the lands of Azeroth, a game which centers around the concept of interacting with others in both a cooperative and competitive way in order to advance a digital avatar's progress.

[JS-dttn]

I prefer Lionel Trilling's Sincerity and Authenticity, on the topic of authenticity.

[hamburgler]

Re: living in “the world as it is”, but what if the world as it is, is a bunch of malarkey? And, or some kind of simulacrum that you find terribly disappointing and inauthentic??

[mehmetkurhan]

And also he criticizes the way we do philosophy and science since Ancient Greece. I agree with him cause philosophy has always been ( in general ) elite thing in terms of number not class