Questions tagged [heidegger]
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) was a German philosopher
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Where does Heidegger explicitly say that Plato's division of Being and Becoming marks the beginning of metaphysics?
Stambaugh writes in the Introduction to On Time and Being (1977):
Both Being and time are concepts which have a long history in the metaphysical tradition going back to Plato. In fact, Heidegger uses ...
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Why did Heidegger take poetry so seriously later on in life?
It was not at all the case in 'Being and Time' (arguably the greatest philosophical work of the 20th century), but later on in his philosophical development Heidegger turned to poetry as a source of ...
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Looking for a Heidegger quote
The other day I found a quote that’s attributed to Heidegger in a book
I’m reading:
Imagine an awareness that sees to the heart of suffering with no urge to fix anything. Imagine this awareness is ...
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Why is Kant’s and Locke’s racial thought often given less ethical scrutiny than Heidegger’s Nazism in philosophical discourse?
Immanuel Kant’s writings include racial hierarchies (e.g., Anthropology, 7:213), and John Locke's Fundamental Constitutions explicitly uphold slavery. Yet in philosophical discussions, their ethical ...
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What does Heidegger mean by claiming Dasein's defining feature is possibility or its ability-to-choose?
Context: having tried (and failed) to read Heidegger's Being and Time, I decided to begin with a secondary source on the text: Wrathall's How to Read Heidegger. The current question stems from the ...
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Why does Heidegger label Nietzsche as a nihilist when Nietzsche consistently advocated against nihilism in his writings?
In Off the Beaten Track, pages 167-168 Heidegger states
In this way Nietzsche recognizes that, even with the devaluation of the hitherto highest values for the world, the world itself remains; and ...
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Truth in Heidegger as unconcealment: appearance or appearing?
I would like to understand how to phenomenologically interpret truth as aletheia according to Heidegger. He believes that truth is revealed immediately as "unconcealment."
My question is ...
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How does phenomenology account for the dissociation between experience and knowledge?
I would like to ask whether it is possible to account, in phenomenological terms (Husserlian if possible), for a dissociation between experience and knowledge.
Let us imagine that someone sees an ...
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Is Heidegger's Dasein Free or Destined?
While Heidegger's Dasein seeks to redefine the human subject in terms of being-in-the-world, does he fully break away from Husserl's subjectivity and lebenswelt?
In his detailed study Not Saved, Peter ...
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What did Haugeland mean when he said that the grounding of ontical truth can be transcendental only as existential?
This is probably a narrow question, and so it's my job to motivate it. Due to the fact it would be inappropriate to expect many people to have read what I'm referencing, I'll try my best to explain my ...
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The meaning of "beings as a whole" for Heidegger
I am reading a secondary source on Heidegger's theory of truth and the phrases "being as a whole" and "beings as a whole" are appearing repeatedly. At first I thought this meant ...
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Is the discussion of truth and perception circular in reasoning?
Can the cliche, "Perception is reality" be incorrect in that (objective) reality is a version of the (subjective) truth, and this version of truth is a form of perception?
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Is asking what being is to make being an entity (*das Seiende*)?
I am reading "Being and Time", and I do not understand this :
-Is asking what being is to make being an entity (das Seiende) ?
Thus : Doesn't what Heidegger is doing consist in making being ...
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How would Heidegger criticize Descartes' melting candle analogy?
I've recently finished reading Being and Time and have attempted to supplement my understanding with different takes on the piece. One interesting angle that I've mused upon myself but haven't seen in ...
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Questions on Phenomenology
This is from https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/phenomenology/#DiscPhen
Section 4 paragraph 9
One of Heidegger’s most innovative ideas was his conception of the “ground” of being, looking to modes of ...
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Heidegger scholars nomenclature puzzling
Heideggerian scholars keep utilizing the phrase "background practices" as a substitute or equivalent for being.
Background practices are things like instinctive social behavior that is ...
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Explanation of Dasein and Da-sein in Heidegger
I am using the translation by Joan Stambaugh. Can someone explain what is meant by "Da-sein", and how does this compares to the more used "Dasein"?
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Is Heideggerian “Being” like the instantiation of a class into an object?
Is Heidegger’s concept of "Being" comparable to the way a class template, in computer programming, gets instantiated as an object? Is “Being” what differentiates the class template from the ...
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What does Heidegger mean "the closedness of earth"?
What does Heidegger mean "the closedness of earth" in 'the origin of the work of art' aka 'Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes'?
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Copy of "Mit Heidegger gegen Heidegger denken" by Jurgen Habermas available?
I am looking for a copy of the essay "Mit Heidegger gegen Heidegger denken" by Jurgen Habermas, in the Frankfurter Allgemeinen Zeitung (FAZ), 1953. Sort of hard to come by, especially as the ...
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What are “intentionality”, “presence” and “taking as” with regards to Heidegger?
From Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Heidegger”:
Viewed in relation to Being and Time, the central philosophical theme in these early years is Heidegger's complex critical relationship with ...
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Is Socrates' wisdom intrinsically valuable?
I don't mean specifically felicity etc. at philosophy, but whether a state of ambivalence toward death, while alive, can be intrinsically valuable because of some knowledge or wisdom that ambivalence ...
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Ontic/Ontological as parallel to a posteriori/a priori?
Heidegger makes the distinction between the ontic (concerning beings themselves) and the ontological (the being of beings, being as such).
Would it be wise to say that the ontic covers the contingent ...
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Heidegger's being-towards-death?
May I have misunderstood Heidegger philosophy, and I've melted up it with psycology, but isn't the being-towards-death, with the authentic Dasein, an anxious way of life?
I mean, in the moment in ...
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So what if the nature of Dasein is Being-in?
I am new to Heidegger. I've just made some preliminary sense of what an existentiale is supposed to be (I am taking it as ontological elements of Dasein's being, core things that are possibility ...
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