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Every now and then, I do the Hansel&Gretel test where I stick out a finger and check to see if it's good for cooking, by tackling some philosophical work that's always been a few IQ points above my paygrade. Then when the verdict is 'definitely not ready, needs more feeding' I can wonder about whether I've just tricked myself and purposely stuck out a chicken-leg because it's more comfortable inside the cage reading Jack Reacher and Harry Potter. In this case, I could've stuck out an elephant foot and still received the verdict 'definitely not ready, needs more feeding'. I couldn't tell if it was Straussian irony or just oversight that there was so much reproducing of Heidegger's lines, quotes, and jargon, all coexisting peacefully with passages that say reiterating concepts without the context that gave rise to them is idle chatter, that it is inauthentic to repeat Heidegger and that one must instead do to him what he did to Kant/Aristotle/Plato, process them through one's unique frame of Dasein. In its absence of context, at least it's all the clearer how singular the philosophy of Heidegger is, how novel the questions he asked. If his ideas have not been tackled in such a form either before or after, it is hard to synthesize or process any of it with a clear narrative.

So what's the best way to read Heidegger then? I came at this because of a sudden interest in phenomenology, and the questions one asks in order to think along those lines. More specifically, I was interested in a more phenomenological viewing of art, especially movies and literature. It's strange then that despite ostensibly being about both of these things, I'm no wiser or tactically ready than before.

Notes
Thinkers have some sort of privileged position that he is considered a Nazi for toeing the line, whereas ordinary citizens won’t be

All knowledge is a relation between knower and object. Can you ever have objective knowledge then? (Epistemology). The particular relationship between you and object doesn't need to be of knowing, so many other options (phenomenology)

Numbers aren't realistic, but idealistic. Husserl

Thrown into the world without choice. So dasein is not what, or properties, but in its possibility.

Authentic eigentlichkeit. Eigen, be my own person. Inauthentic in social conformity, though not always.

Dasein views the world (unlike Descartes) with circumspect concern rather than disinterested contemplation

Descartes Newton Leibniz’s spatial world is one of coordinates. Heidegger spatial world is one of directions and relationships

Stimmung or mood has a musical connotation, the instrument is tuned a certain way.

We don't hear sounds, we hear concepts. Even foreign language doesn't sound like tone data but unintelligible words

No portion of meaning sufficiently independent of the world. So all assertion is tautology or redundant?

World is not disclosed by assertion but by daseins moods and understanding. Dasein is the primary locus of truth.

False rede can still shed enough light to guide us in the right direction, even if away from the rede. Chatter is inert, tranquilizes us.

Fallen dasein: philosophical errors are refined conceptual versions of everyday misunderstanding

Jargon as chatter. Reiterating concepts without context that gave rise to them. Inauthentic to repeat Heidegger. Instead do to him what he did to Kant Aristotle. Process it through your brain-factory.

How to separate dasein from the external world like separating leaf from a plant?

Scientists themselves fallen dasein. His discoveries (projections) are from within this. Intelligent bacteria have no need for second law of thermodynamics

Can we know if dasein confers potentiality onto particles, like rocks and water?

Dasein is a spatial metaphor. But tradition is handed down over time not space

Things need to withstand the test of time, not test of space. This is only because of the speed of light? What happens when we can instantly distribute information/ideas across space, and measure how widely it diffuses into the universe? Withstands the test of space? The same thing.

Alternate view of evolution across spacetime?

Dedicate self to identifying all threads of influence across spacetime?

History: relativism, thoughts values even math are relative to the culture and not just incomplete or wrong fragments of a whole.

Other approach to relativism is Platonism, abstracting Universals, Husserl. Descartes who hated history.

Heidegger thought this inadequate. That they've neglected intertwining of past with present. Historicity of dasein. Dasein dissolved in culture. History is yours, not of anonymous cultures and periods.

Geschehen happening . Schicksal and geshick fate and destiny. Geschichte history.

Authentic historian won't just say Caesar crossed Rubicon but also possibilities and options whence he chose that path.

Nietzsche 3 historiology types : monumental, antiquarian, and critical

Respected Hegel, rejecting epistemology for ontology. Infinite man destined to view reality through the eye of God.

Came to art through interest in presocratics (more like poetry), Schelling/Nietzsche (for whom art was important), and language (which he thought originated with poets)

Has two contrarian views of art: it has objective value, and it reveals truths and not just about beauty or pleasure

Poets words unlike regular words resistant to paraphrasing. In art, material is used but not used up, unlike in equipment.

Science is correct, art is true. Art uses the creator to reveal truths. Creators are just the agent of a larger force

Actual language communicates things we know. Projective language names beings for the first time,bringing them out of dim confusion.

Poetry is prior to other arts, which operate in a realm disclosed already by language.

Founding a truth : 1. Bestowing, a gift thrusting the extraordinary above. 2. Grounding, truth is cast not into void but into a culture. 3. Beginning, like homer containing all future tragedies

Art as origin, ursprung or leap forth,

Believed in hierarchies, and German philosophy role in reviving Europe. Other conservative patriots though didnt become Nazis, junger and Spengler

Why can one support communism and discard the gulags and forced collectivizations , but not support Nazism and discard the holocaust?

Falsehood not coordinate with truth i.e not ‘does not correspond to reality� or ‘make false assertion�. Instead it is covering or distorting reality. Truth is uncovering reality, illuminating.

Opponents not false but as insufficiently ‘ursprunglich� (to the source), i.e light shown is not deep enough. False means wrong light or wrong direction.

Verfallen - falling away from oneself into the world. Giving in to tradition, ‘they�, things unexamined. Authentic talk ‘Rede� becomes idle talk ‘gerede�. Relative of idle chatter is curiosity, neugier, greed for the new. Everyone curious and chatter about everything, ambiguity and duplicity - zweideutlichkeit

Dasein would be better off believing it is dying even if it cannot, than if it knew it cannot, since we are driven to more things when time is finite.

Dasein flees from its authentic self towards the they-self, but has residual awareness of it, hence being able to call to itself as well as respond to the call - this is the Conscience

Authentic time: Resolute Dasein goes forward to its death and then comes back towards us in the present (not time travel, but approaching us, hence we meet it one event at a time into the future, Zukunft is ‘coming towards�). Irresolute dasein simply waits for the future.