Gadamer on Heraclitus (Full Interview 1989)

[@jdzentrist8711]

This is almost beyond commnication in its beauty and magnificence. The whole thing is enhanced by the extraordinary production, with the great philosopher seated solemnly in his black suit with white shirt, and the lighting almost Rembrandt-esque. The man's animation, his LOVE OF WISDOM, comes through here in an "eternal now." He actually looks younger here, at eighty-nine, than he did when I met him 1976, at age seventy-six. We met in the university cafeteria for half an hour. In my youthful naivete, I wanted to know what he thought about something or other. I'll never forget what he suggested: "Don't try to UNIVERSALIZE this." He had brought his wife to the week-long visit. The dean remarked privately that his spirit seemed to sag when she had to return home. He wears his wedding band on his right hand--either she died or there was a divorce. I think his remarks here are partly inspired by grief; and yet also by the "consolations" that this very deep philosophy provides. At one point, during the seminars, in a reply to someone's question, he made the gesture of a warrior pulling back the string on a bow. This profound, embodied and all-encompassing spiritedness breaks through time and space, then, now and forevermore.

[@waltershumer4211]

That's incredible well said!

[@jdzentrist8711]

@@waltershumer4211 Thank you 😊

[@kenneth1767]

Thank you, I was wondering how old he was while listening to him speak of having lived through both wars. The joy and then the loss, all one - of the same river.

[@philoofsophia899]

Been waiting for this to be re-uploaded. Thank you so so much. I've fallen HARD in love with Gadamer because of this channel.

[@spiritualneutralist2597]

When I grow up I want to be Gadamer.

[@filosofiaeducacion4051]

Me too

[@anasuyaa]

Why

[@Impaled_Onion-thatsmine]

Get a phd when your 60 in league of legends? Which literally defined all science and post bachelor study as unlawful methodology of ontology and not truth value....this guy is seriously overlooked and should have been studied extensively in that program we made in canada?

[@hugobertacchini3569]

Es ist großartig Gadamer zu hören!❤️ Vielen Dank für ihre Bemühung und liebe Grüße aus Valencia Spanien!

[@g.slothouwer998]

Such a shame that this kind of speech doesn't exist anymore, on the radio or in a podcast.

[@sibanbgd100]

Sure it does. You just need to search for it

[@michaelconnolly3990]

At least it exists here.

[@skalitstudio2208]

@@sibanbgd100name drop some podcasts please!

[@YM-cw8so]

Don't generalize everything with your own ignorance

[@edgarh7879]

​@@skalitstudio2208The Nietzsche Podcast by essentialsalts is my absolute favorite philosophical Podcast. In Episode 5 he also focuses on Heraclitus!

[@romans9184]

lovely video ... my favorite line is from 18:20 "with quotes, one can prove anything" ... indeed!

[@cheri238]

This is so interesting. Thank you. ❤️ I have not heard of Gadamer before.

[@robford3211]

@cheri He is only the most important of Heidegger students although Arendt is perhaps better known to general public

[@mazyar_]

Ein großartiges und informatives Interview

[@juanjuan-xr5vc]

You are doing a great job with this channel. Keep up the good work! Greetings from Chile.

[@AlexanderKoryagin]

Simply beautiful!

[@robertb1138]

Thanks much for providing this.

[@thomassimmons1950]

TS Eliot's Four Quartets is perhaps the poetic expression of this.

[@jurijsrjabokons7509]

Heraclitus was a favorite Philosophers amongst various modern philosophers.

[@Kurolicht]

Gracias!

[@Aes0n]

Brilliant.

[@uniphcommunity.thewhitetower]

An enlightening view from a great philosopher!

[@kenneth1767]

Those observant moments when the fire of Heraclitus ignited passion in the eyes of Gadamer. With hindsight Tolkien could have added Gadamer to the memorable characters in his epic tale.

[@Dr.Bercest3-c9e]

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[@das.gegenmittel]

What a gift

Greatfull

[@myla6135]

Wonderful. His view on opposites existing together reminds me of Chinese cosmology and the forces of Yin and Yang which always go together. Life and death, wet and dry, love and hate. You can't have one without the other yet we (in the modern world in the West) seem always to want to get rid of one and cling on to the other. A hopeless task.

[@lokeshparihar7672]

what is the title of book which he is reading?

[@ShmaerkWards]

It's just called "Die Vorsokratiker", a collection of all the Pre-Socratic writings in one book. I think it has been around for several centuries in the German-speaking world actually. He speaks of it with some contempt which is probably down to the interpretative annotations: The book gives an introduction to each of the Pre-Socratics, biographical bits, and explanations of their central points, but of course these explanations/summaries are debatable sometimes. Still, it gives you the writings of all the Pre-Socratics in one book, in both Greek and German, so it is naturally very handy. There will be something like this in English, too. Hope that helps.

[@XD226]

27:08

[@czarquetzal8344]

So Nietzsche got his idea of 'eternal recurrence ' to the conception of fire by Heraclitus.

[@sibanbgd100]

Oh, if only it was so simple

[@czarquetzal8344]

@@sibanbgd100 owwws? As if you understand the video.

[@sibanbgd100]

@@czarquetzal8344 This video? Why do you think that I don't and even if I don't what does that have to do with Nietzsches eternal recurrence?

[@czarquetzal8344]

@@sibanbgd100 see? You don't get the point. Paradox of ignorance. I can't help you with that

[@sibanbgd100]

@@czarquetzal8344 I'll give you an unironic benefit of the doubt and presume that you are right about my ignorance. Would you be so kind as to tell me what I'm missing?

[@aleenanixon1111]

🙏

[@jimtzikis]

I have the impression that he reads the greek text in Erasmian pronunciation.

[@darrylthomas815]

I wonder what Gadamer thought of Schopenhauer...

[@darrylthomas815]

LOL, I just saw the lecture on AS...

[@iallalli5223]

Heraclitus! Ubiquitous. That is I of Me. That is I of you, your real Self. I am whatever I am. Moses said, I am who I am, God. When you say, Aah, that's I of you. When you say, Uuh, that's I of you. Come to I of you, then you'll see, that Aah and Uuh is the made of the same I of you. There the sky is the earth, so whatever everything is the nondual I of each people. Never birth never die, the movement in the nonmovement, the light of Life. The Transcendental and the Ubiquitous! Return to Me, the I of your real Self. Ahu!!@

[@jdzentrist8711]

Vedanta rocks

[@Dreadwinner]

😎

[@dan020350]

✌️

[@allsgodisall8787]

The One I Am Presence in all (diversity) that is.

[@dharmapalsharma2679]

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[@drjohnswilkins]

Obscure? I heard of him when I was ten.

[@michaelconnolly3990]

I think he is referring to the meaning of Heraclitus' thought as obscure, not Heraclitus himself.

[@drjohnswilkins]

@@michaelconnolly3990 That makes a lot more sense. But is that simply because we only have apothegms rather than a coherent argument?

[@pectenmaximus231]

I heard of him when I was implanting in the uterine wall. Top that!

[@drjohnswilkins]

@@pectenmaximus231 Well, I *first* heard of him in Plato's heaven before I was conceived.

[@ShmaerkWards]

@@michaelconnolly3990 Correct. Gadamer calls him "der Dunkle". Literally, this means "the dark one". But in German, Dark can also be used to express something like Incomprehensible, Mystifying, Impenetrable, Elusive, Hidden. So it's Obscure in the sense that his thought was mystifying and hard to grasp. I think Heraclitus had been referred to as "the Obscure" in this sense ever since Antiquity. So yes, if Gadamer had meant Obscure as in Unknown, then he'd have called him something entirely different, "der Unbekannte" or something.

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Suggestive ?!? Pronounced with German accent ? Is that German ? Thomas Mann would not approve !

[@baskerbom4472]

What a fool. Heraclitus is not about all is one. What Heraclitus means is that everything is one through a binary opposition, and it is the binary opposition that is the core of Heraclitus works, not the oneness.

[@tarhunta2111]

That's what he's saying.

[@pectenmaximus231]

You’re the fool writing comments without watching a whole video. Gadamer makes precisely the point you think he somehow missed (and he makes it about 10 times with examples, including suggesting that most commenters misinterpret the river as being about flux when it is about opposition in unity).

[@baskerbom4472]

@@pectenmaximus231 well, i guess to some extend we are all fools.

[@acidpunk7423]

Yes I was born a mortal, that which always is

[@artlessons1]

Simply Wonderful!

[@matsulrich7765]

35:19

[@ЕвгенийАндреевич-л1с]

26:21