Heidegger on Being Towards Death and Transhumanism

[@SeventyFive-gn9kh]

Death is a bone chilling silence. No voice has ever reached us from the other side. In the clamor of life we brush aside this great silence and therefore live only by a kind of death-oblivion.

[@thomassimmons1950]

Brilliant breakdown...Cheers, mate!

[@akram4139]

Your videos like Treasure every time I came back to it I take something valuable, Vielen Danken Johannes.

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

Thank you so much, Akram!

[@clumsydad7158]

Wonderful discourse with Heidegger across time Johannes, and referencing the comments of Davos, linking the futurity of da sein as crossing from the pre-20th century german idealism, across the necessary abyss and confusion of the 20th century destruktion of reference, and to Nietzsche and Heidegger pointing us back to radical yet uncertain (but breatheable, liveable, humane) interaction and reintegration into the possibilities of the world and all we have yet to know and grow as humans.

[@davidjoelsen3399]

I just learned a new to me perspective of being and death - very interesting. Thank you

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

Thank you

[@jw_simpkin]

Great video, Johannes, very passionate. Your expressions here also fit very well with the words you're saying; by turns brooding and intense, then light and playful as appropriate.

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

James Simpkin thank you kindly James!

[@byaringan13]

We are no longer eve trying to explode into the the universe Johannes, it's a multi-verse now! There's no limit to how far we can be detached from reality it seems.

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

byaringan13 Quite right. To speak of a universe is no longer meaningful under this cruel late modern metaphysics for there is nothing unifying. Hence the need to come up with the notion of the multiverse

[@danieldonohue189]

The nihilist ride we find ourselves on is obviously bringing us ever closer to disaster so the need for some strong kick back is urgent. This video is contributing to that!Good luck in your work and thank you the video.

[@clumsydad7158]

the more ... the merrier ... the scarier ... on towards the impending precipice

[@IgboKezie]

I loved the juxtaposition betwixt Moglichtkeit and the Latin word for possibility power/potentness which I sensed as a legalistic mathematical rational chance factors whereas . The idea that Moglichkeit comes from 'love' and encapulates the idea that #dasein (the individual here/there) wants something to happen, may be even more emotionally invested in the idea coming to past. I'm probably way off base here but that is what come to mind when I heard you speak.

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

Kriss Akabusi you are completely right about possibility. Möglichkeit comes from mögen which means to like, to love. There is something profound lost in translation if we stick to the ordinary translation of Möglichkeit

[@JohnSmith-kr4vm]

thank you

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

Thank you, too

[@Todoriina]

Greetings, excellent explanation and thank you for your effort. I’m interested of your thoughts on Ernest Becker “The Denial of Death”

[@sashafalcon5143]

Thank you so much for your videos. I don't understand why "relocating death to the technical realm", wether that's possible or not, it's an "evil thing".

[@clumsydad7158]

i think as we are to figure out and accept and meet and embrace death in order to live, that when this happens it is akin to an education and a graduation. of course, it is a process that takes most of our lives, and decidedly so via the experiential and the psychological processing. but when we complete our education we have earned our intimacy with life and death. and when we have done that before we die we have effectively 'graduated'. death is then just the closing ceremony, the performative part where we, as it were, go on stage, we get our degree. our actual death is this performance and formality. slowly and gradually in the decades and years prior we see with the eyes of understanding death, and we reach our mutual understanding, between ourselves and the next generations, via death. we reach that psychological end, and peace... and then in time we physically expire, or per heidegger, meet our 'demise'.

[@post-civilizationartpracti9325]

Thank you, this subject has been on my mind lately, but in the current situation there isnt really anyone around for me to have a decent conversation about it. It was really nice to hear your thoughts on it. I was watching this Bergman film the other day, 'Ansiktet' it deals with some of these themes, there is a very interesting scene at the start of the film where a man dies, while doing so he tells a magician who specializes in the illusion death who has started to watch him close and intensely; "you want to record the precise moment. Observe carefully, I will keep my face open to your curiosity. What do I feel? Fear and well-being. Now death has reached my hands, my arms, my feet, my belly. I cant see anymore,I'm death. you're wondering, ill tell you..Death is...." leaving the magicians questions unanswered.

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

Thank you kindly!

[@clumsydad7158]

Ansiktet? I'm wondering which that is... oh The Magician, interesting, don't know that one ... a year after The Seventh Seal I see, 1958.

[@caymandurham4750]

damnation, kept in the attention of the eye, there is no sky to tempt ascension, no sty to blind and blinker precision, complete, insufferable world; one faintly hears the hymns of forsaken angels.

[@Thomas88076]

We all want to be famous for something that we enjoy. Don't you? That's the real mystery at the heart of the present.

[@westernman7715]

Marvellous. Trans-humanists have always rubbed me up the wrong way. Their outright denial of the complete destruction of a human ontology that is implicit in the shift to trans-human consciousness is particularly ghastly. Yet they march arrogantly onward. I like how you convey this as the latest in a primordial battle over the meaning of Being, it's true status.

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

Western Man thank you very much for your comment. The weirdest aspect about trans humanism is of course that it is a form of humanism, of idolising “humanity”’ to such a degree that - see how wonderfully mysteriously this works - the human disappears behind the abstracted idolisation of himself and is literally done away with

[@syedaleemuddin6804]

I like your presentation. Love from India 🇮🇳 So I can say I am because I am conscious of my life and my certain death. Is this good?

[@chriseversole9192]

I'm reading Heart of the World by the Swiss Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar. Some similar ideas just within the first few pages: "Every moment in our life teaches us with gentleness what the last moment must must finally enforce with violence: that we ought to discover in the mystery of time’s duration the sweet core of our life - the offer made by a tireless love." "Only one thing can ever be deadly: to be alive and not want to die. Every death which is willingly died is a source of life." "The meaning of our life: to show our recognition that we are not God. Thus, we die unto God, for God is eternal life... a drop of death is commingled in every moment of existence."

[@Thomas88076]

I find your name finally! Hello Johannes 👋

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

Thank you! And hello!

[@Thomas88076]

@@JohannesNiederhauser Hi. Yes. I like your style 👍 I posted a comment on your September video on Heidegger Technology London. What do you think? Are you on Facebook or Twitter? Give me a shout if you are. My name is Thomas, but since I like you, you can call me Tommy. 🌝

[@maxluthander9970]

haha great stuff: didn’t expect the subscribe to my channel part, but I did, around the halfway mark

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

Works every time

[@freedommascot]

I want certainty, perhaps more than the next guy, as I want ultimate certainty! I’m 68 and have been searching all my life, combing through anything I could get my hands on-desperate for a meaningful model of the world that could incorporate everything. Ideas can only take us so far; ideas about “what is Life, what is Existence-learning the science as well as the marvel of Nature-only so far. The truth lies in the intersection of time and space, the fleeting, momentary NOW, of time. We cannot control that flow no matter how we might try, but can only inhabit, fully, each calculi. Only that is real. Courage is what’s needed-but try and tell that to all the cowards hiding behind the skirts of those they mindlessly follow. Or, as well, to those hiding behind the skirts of those that blame the blamers! The territory between birth and death admits no blame and no lies.

[@freedommascot]

Also, I should add that I’ve just recently found your channel and count it as the most relevant one I’ve ever come across, at least with this vid and the one you just posted regarding the coronavirus (which this one followed automatically). But I hope you can rethink your concept of evil. I can tell you (with certainty, haha!), that that concept only holds relative value, that it doesn’t describe the nature of anything and, thus, you don’t need it. Nature is Nature, and we are that! How about viewing the expansion, or extension, away from our human core that’s been going on now since the ‘60’s as a natural movement? Contraction/expansion, Yin/Yang, with each creating the capacity for the other. I see the core as I do the DNA of the cell. It’s necessity is to guard over what gets carried over into the future, and what doesn’t. And it can’t fall down on the job of maintaining itself (law and order/responsibility as opposed to rights, and yes, the fact of death against which it’s busy ensuring a future for the gene stock). The Left, on the other hand, are the experimenters, or the children who temporarily leave the parental home to explore the surrounds. It is the seashells that they bring home that are presented up to the deliberative choice of the guardian at the gate. But now the children have fancied their world is an endless phantasmagorical playground, but it’s not. It’s dinner-time and time for them to come home. In another era, the Left will be given new life when it’s the underdog, once again-like it was in the ‘60’s. But no matter the perspective, everything becomes self-serving once it acquires the power to dominate, reducing its competition. It’s so beautiful how it works, really! But the reality of death is something that the Left needs to learn, as we all do. It informs the Right but the Right also informs it. Onward and upward-culturally speaking.

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

freedommascot thank you for your comments. The search itself is our attempt to return home. We find this home in love - but I would think we won’t find home in a model that explains everything. We live under the Cartesian paradigm which wants absolute self-certainty. It is time to reconnect with other ways of being human

[@freedommascot]

Classical Philosophy Thanks so much for your reply. I believe that understanding is everything in the sense that only understanding can inform our evolutionary course. I question your statement that we need to reconnect with other ways of being as even a legitimate starting point since how can “being” ever be commanded to be anything other than what it is, and why would we think that human beings would know better than what nature has already given? Wouldn’t it be more effective to understand what nature is and how IT works? There is nothing that is not under nature’s jurisdiction and humans are only fools to see themselves as somehow separate. We do not hold some place at the top of a dominance hierarchy when it comes to Existence. Existence, Itself, is the mystery but it’s only through understanding and respecting its workings that we might begin to appreciate ourselves as IT, also. The ego is a bit player that needs to be put in its place. Yes, the ego is an aspect of the Whole, but just a pattern in the foreground, and when we look for a self all we find is a house of mirrors. Let’s pay more attention to what’s in the background and “reconnect” to what appears to us at face value to be the non-self. Which, of course, includes an embrace of death as well. (You were definitely on the right track with that one, haha!) Peace.

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

@@freedommascot Thank you Kindly! I will very soon upload a talk by my friend Professor Max Gottschlich on the philosophy of nature, of how we need to rethink our relationship with nature. Stay tuned

[@JohannesNiederhauser]

@@freedommascot Here is the talk I promised yesterday on nature kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2XCf2VvbMSWnrs

[@farzanamughal5933]

It because its evil doesn't mean they won't do it. Isn't that correct?

[@travisedwards8299]

Excellent again Johannes .. you are one of few who gets Heidegger And yes .. Mr Hakari.. a elitist atheist snake ! An enemy of Life . Would love if you do a video on Ludwig Klages

[@peterlimberg1]

Meta-crisis of the meta-crisis! Lol.