Heidegger - Being and Time - 7/12

Martin Heidegger was an original and influential 20th century German existential philosopher whose seminal text, Being and Time, supplied many of the ideas later thinkers in existentialism would have to respond to.
Heidegger spent his entire life obsessed by one question, What is being? Being and Time is the beginning of an answer to this.

[gazrater]

Definitely getting there Nath, the comic irony of this comment isn’t lost on me. As ever a great help as I explore H. I will get the Tolstoy book it’s on my reading list. Thank you Gaz

[thisaccountisdead]

Thanks for these videos. I won't bother you with anymore comments (I'm not an expert and I am just trying to get a feel for the material). I've been approaching Heidegger's Being and Time from an LGBT pespective (again I am not an expert) which has meant me looking at neuroscience hypothesis regarding sexuality and gender identity before approaching Heidegger's Being and Time. So in terms of relevant neuroscience here which relates to fear and anxiety: specifically the amygdala and extended amygdala (or "bnst") and the motor-sensory cortex of the parietal lobe as well as the Dorsal and Ventral Stream hypothesis as well various aspects of the brain regarding normal function and mental illness. So there's that xP. Anyway. No bother. looking forward to rest of the series! lovin' it.

[MischlingTsar]

I wonder if you've tried reading "death" as being towards the impossibility of all possibilities in the sense of loss of the for-the-sake-of-which out of which those possibilities are projected; a sort of disintegration of the circuit of selfness; a potentiality of no longer being there that can after all be actualised as being no longer that particular there or perhaps of being that particular there as no longer, being toward impossiblized possibilities; a potentiality of 'being' no longer 'there.'

This reading, for me, throws light on the Nietzsche quote about becoming too old for victories, which I take to mean persevering past vitality, not having heeded the call of conscience, never having been stripped back to the bare potentiality from which one might project oneself upon a new (or old?) for-the-sake-of-which; the natality constituting the opposite, or rather apposite, end of authentic Dasein.