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Authenticity consists in choosing to choose, fighting the inertia of banality with a practical version of spotlight consciousness. We need to be jolted awake from “the oblivious passing of our lives” in order to engage in our lives vigorously. For existentialists, the unexamined life is barely lived. Heidegger’s antihumanist later work overcomes this early voluntarism, offering the most coherent account of free will
— Jan 13, 2020 10:51PM
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Heidegger: “the question of whether there is a world at all and whether its Being can be proved, makes no sense if it is raised by Dasein as Being-in-the-world; and who else would raise it?”
— Jan 14, 2020 12:11AM
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we are under no obligation to demonstrate the validity of our belief in the external world: first, because the world is not external; and second, because we don’t believe in it. Not because we’re skeptical, but because our relationship takes place at a much deeper level, so that to approach it in epistemic terms is to commit a category mistake.
— Jan 14, 2020 12:10AM
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the world is “there” before all belief. The world is never experienced as something which is believed any more than it is guaranteed by knowledge. Inherent in the being of the world is that its existence needs no guarantee in regard to a subject. . . . Any purported belief in it is a theoretically motivated misunderstanding.
— Jan 14, 2020 12:08AM
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Freedom is to be free and open for being claimed by something. This claim is then the ground of action, the motive. I cannot exist at all without constantly responding to this or that address in a thematic or unthematic way; otherwise I could not take so much as a single step, nor cast a glance at something.
— Jan 14, 2020 12:05AM
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Heidegger inverts his early project, from encouraging a self-conscious choice of the roles and equipmental webs we had merely drifted into to praising “releasement” of the will. Whereas Dasein had, in SZ, rarely exercised his will though he should do so in a heroically anxious moment of claiming and making his self, in the later writings modern technological man is constantly willing but should let things be.
— Jan 14, 2020 12:01AM
Lia
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Kant PFM: Were angels to whisper to us of the inner workings of reality in-itself, we should stop up our ears like Odysseus against the Sirens. The desire to follow this disastrous metaphysical call is built into our nature, so that we can never decisively quit metaphysics—we have to be tied to the mast.
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Lia
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We have already seen three obstacles to accurate description: inconspicuousness, inherited prejudices, and dread-motivated cover-ups. Another cause is our failure to appreciate the “ontological difference”: our dealings with individual beings keep our understanding of their modes of being in the taken-for-granted background, so that our ontology remains pre-ontological.
— Mar 28, 2019 03:07PM
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Heidegger’s combination of hermeneutics w phenomenology means that understanding phenomena involves interpretation. While this can never lead us to reject phenomena in favor of something noumenal hidden behind them or something substantial lurking beneath, neither are we forced take things as they initially appear. Conclusions must be borne out by experience, and this often requires considerable effort and patience.
— Mar 28, 2019 03:06PM
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early H follows Kierkegaard in defining the self as caring about what happens to her. Our pre-ontological understanding of being—the necessary condition for us to do anything and be anyone at all—comes from Dasein’s unavoidable investment in her own well-being, her future; our encounters with others, tools, and objects receive their intelligibility within the context of our quest to be a certain kind of person.
— Mar 28, 2019 02:59PM
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skepticism is a fake problem that must be dissolved by restoring us to our normal, seamless state of being-in-the-world, rather than solved by bridging an illusory gap between inner and outer realms. Once regained, the pre-ontological understanding of our mode of being disperses philosophy’s bewitchment and pseudo-issues (similar to W popping speculative bubbles w. grammar/tacit knowledge in normal circumstances.)
— Mar 28, 2019 02:54PM
