Martin Heidegger, Plato's Doctrine of Truth | Allegory & History of Metaphysics | Core Concepts

[@Self-Duality]

Very intriguing thinking 😊💭

[@GregoryBSadler]

Glad to read it

[@MrMarktrumble]

Very good. Worth repeating and learning. Thank you.

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're welcome!

[@rashidmohdamin8324]

Excellent !!

[@GregoryBSadler]

Thanks!

[@Nalhek]

So how does heidegger think that alethea is preferable to humanistic metaphysics? What are we missing out on that the presocratics had?

[@GregoryBSadler]

You're asking a big question here. I'll give a short answer - aletheia is involved, for Heidegger, in all metaphysics, so the question contrasting [truth as] alethea against humanistic metaphysics isn't quite putting matters right. To start working an answer out for yourself, you want to read the entire essay.

[@iamcaesar6741]

Can you make a short video on a more detailed idea of what "being" means; the way I understand it now after watching many philosophy videos. In general, is that "being" is the activity of the thing that defines its essence. And the word or name of that specific essence that is assigned to it; is a sense of an idea a "distorted interpretation" which is an "idea of an idea." Is this close to what you are saying?

[@GregoryBSadler]

"Being" is a term that gets multiple meanings. Here's my more or less standard response to requests I make videos about X - kzbin.info/www/bejne/rJy7fKeuocp6d5o - if you're interested in commissioning a video or videos, I do that sort of work from time to time

[@DrewShotwell]

Would you say that Heidegger is asserting that humanistic metaphysics is an anthropomorphic system by which human beings become erroneous in their conception of truth? And, if this isn't too much of a stretch, could this be a basis of thinking by which an environmentalist 'metaphysics' is founded: having a sharper sense of the non-centrality of human beings in Being?

[@GregoryBSadler]

Change "anthopomophic" to "anthopocentric", and the answer is yes

[@motemints]

headache :(, I'm stupid

[@GregoryBSadler]

Probably not. These works are complex, so not getting them all at once doesn't mean you're stupid

[@henryberrylowry9512]

Never getting them at all wouldn't make you stupid!