An Introduction to Heidegger: Being and Time

In this video, I look at the basic concepts in Part One or (Division One) of Martin Heidegger's Being and Time.

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Image of Martin Heidegger

Music:

Is That You or Are You You by Chris Zabriskie

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Sources:

Mulhall, S. (2013). The Routledge Guidebook to Heidegger's Being and time. London: Routledge.

Dreyfus and Haugeland on Heidegger and Authenticity Author(s): Tobias Henschen, Human Studies, Vol. 35, No. 1 (Spring 2012)

Heidegger, M., Being and Time, 1927

[ThenNow]

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[thenicaron]

For non-philosophers, the most basic & important thing to understand about Heidegger (in order to not see his statements as obvious and useless) is that his starting point is to forget about all the modern world notions of a separation between the outside "real" world and the inside subjective world of perception (comonly viewed as less real). His phenomenological approach is to re-think human existence as it presents itself now, as the phenomena of being and being in the world, not as a third-person type analysis of the human object, but the feeling of being alive, only then you'll understand that his theory is genius and not irrelevent like Carnap does, because Carnap thinks he's trying to study human being as a third-person analysis and not as a phenomenological analysis that forgets about all the preconceived notions of "objectivity", "subjectivity" and so on... Just like Husserl said, "let's go back to the things themselves and forget about all your preconceived notions".

[tylerfloodgate]

This channel has the best stock footage on the internet

[nilanjanaghosh]

Never expected anyone can simplify the each building block of his monumental concepts that too in a 11 minutes vedio . Greatly benefited.

[CDArnoldMusic]

Thanks for posting this. I'm just beginning to study Heidegger and this has been a big help in helping me see why is considered such a prominent philosopher. Cheers!

[nostalgia]

Excellent video. Philochrony is the theory that describes the nature of time and demonstrates its existence. Time is magnitive.

[jamespotts]

My favorite point made in this segment was, on how the essence of an animal (it's being) is purely instinctual, and how the essence and or "being" of a human is completely different. Now the next logical furthermore intriguing question is Heidegger's "what is it like to exist"? "Being", "Dasein", states of mind and the like. An amazingly complex and beautifully insightful question. This was another amazing video. Keeo pushing forward in promoting Philosophy. The most intricate, complex and fascinating discipline of all of the intellectual arts!

[romanovrex]

Such a different way of looking at Heidegger, to me his Being and Time illustrate the very impossibly of describing ( in having to use signs, language) the condition of being a being that knows it is.

[williamkoscielniak]

I greatly appreciate and value phenomenology, and not just the specific form or method of it that exists in the western philosophical tradition, but phenomenology in its broadest sense: namely, how we experience the world and ourselves. In my opinion, how we experience being and living is the most fundamental question there is, for the greatest value comes in our experiences and not in our representations or theories of experience. It is a scientific truth that the earth is a round sphere that revolves around the sun, and that's all well and good. But it is a phenomenological truth that the earth is flat and that the sun rises in the morning and sets in the evening. When I go out for a walk in the early morning I feel my feet walking across a flat surface and I see an orange/yellow ball rise from beneath the earth and increasingly rise higher as the atmosphere becomes brighter and warmer. In this experience of walking I am living life and taking in all of the colors and shapes and textures and sensations that arise outside of me and within me. Theorizing about the nature of reality and the rotation of the planets (etc.) is also a wonderful experience. But the key word is "experience". Discovering a new planet through a telescope or a new sub-atomic particle through a microscope is undoubtedly a rich and rewarding and spellbinding experience. Yes, these scientific discoveries also bring with them the ability to create and invent new technologies and new ways of living that help humanity, and so they have great utility. But the experience is the most valuable of all of the riches that help humanity, and not the "things" in themselves. Camus once said (paraphrasing) "whether the earth or the sun revolve around the other is of a profound indifference, but whether to commit suicide or not is the most important question". The western world has long been obsessed with trying to understand nature, map it out, and manipulate it to create new toys. And once again, that is all well and good (I'm only able to type this out because of the technologies that the scientific method has helped bring about, so I am by no means ungrateful for it). But no amount of awesome technologies like this keyboard that I am using to talk to you guys over the internet internet is quite as valuable as the experiences themselves. New technologies and maps of the world allow for enhanced experiences of being, but the highest value is precisely in the experience of being, and not in the technologies or maps themselves.

[akram]

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[ryanholsapple]

Fantastic job. Having read B&T I find this to be a highly cogent refresher.

[IgboKezie]

Fantastically, simple and well presented. Thank you

[Tapas]

Hari
I took my exam on Heidegger in Bergen, Norway 1979. And have studied also eastern Vedanta philosophy for many years (Heidegger took part in dialoges with eastern thinkers).
After all these years of study my assessment is that Heidegger was and is a fundamental philisopher because he ask THE question of philosophy: Was ist Sein? In greek: ai on (on - tology). AND: the same is the base question in Vedanta: brahma jijnasa - what is Being?
Along with that question comes: What is the Self? - Which is also asked in Vedanta.
Without asking these questions there is no more philosophy, but mere nihilism, which is the dominant underlying conception of existence today in a postmodernistic culture with no standards of truth, and nothing else directive than ever changing political correctness, controlled by some few.
In Vedanta nihilism - sunyavada - is not considered philosophy, since there is no truth to search for. Within thinking nihilism is therefore considered irrelevant.
Heidegger, like Nietzsche, warned about the developement of nihilism followed by death of metaphysics and philosophy in Europe, leaving everything to cybernetics, today developed into a life in digital sphere.
Philosophy today is mere history of ideas and the basic questions and search after truth slaughtered in the educational systems.
But then the human is not any longer animal rational, but merely animal. Technology the animals also have as they need.
The famous interview with Spiegel 1966 to be released after his death was headlined: "Nur ein Gott kann uns retten" - "only a God can save us" - when being asked what philosoohy and science can do to save the world. This was the conclusion of the last classical philosopher in Europe trying his best to emphasize the need to ask the base question of philosophy of all times, west as east: "What is Being? What is Truth? Who am I? Why is there suffering?
If these questiln are not asked, then it is no longer human life, but sophisticated animal life, preparing for robot existence.

[jonking]

9:03 "The prominent Heideggerian RICHARD Dreyfus" LOL! I made that same error in conversation yesterday.

[afud]

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[jonathanspruance]

Great video. I'm about to start reading Being and Time. Interesting point about his support for the Nazi party (although I heard he later stopped supporting them). I think that if anything it's a testament of the power of nationalism and the unwillingness of most people to criticize their 'own' institution, since belonging to a larger group serves as an extension of one's ego and a great source of psychological security. Once you form a nationalistic allegiance your sense of morality is necessarily compromised; you abandon reason for faith.

[Morg]

i just got the book. can't wait to read it :D

[flor]

This is helpful to those who read Being and Time, for those who didnt read the book you mightrather keep your ideas to yourself.

[sisayasalegeribo]

great lecture your lecturing method is best

[CarlosGarcia-rgsd]

Does anyone know where I can get a summary of his philosophies, having trouble understanding what point he is trying to get across