Martin Heidegger, Lecture 2: Care... and the Riddle of Authentic Existence

[@baek9265]

Taking a class about Heidegger, these lectures are helping me greatly! Thank you for the videos.

[@florindacar8659]

Yes, Tarkovskiy also said: "We have to care and being responsible about what is going on around us. All the time".

[@brucecmoore1657]

I love these lessons; thank you.

[@PeterZeeke]

I love this guy. #ridersofthestorm

[@gigihammerstein5944]

Thank you Professor, I am very thankful for your lectures, would love to be an actual student😊

[@thatmixedcat]

I actually being seriously questioned about this matter of 'care structure' last year in my last high school year, when I haven't discovered Heidegger works. somehow I still refused to know that this is written almost like years ago, wow. I love these lectures, thank you for making one of these videos, very helpful!

[@davidandrews3577]

Very helpful. Thankyou, Professor Dodson.

[@cognitivedissident4615]

Man that was a great talk, love the way you tied in the coronacult nonsense. I didnt even realize you had done this series so recently. Looking forward to viewing the rest of the material.

[@julesjgreig]

Thanks so much, Prof. Dodson. Very clear - very helpful.

[@jessicabsable]

So good. Thanks from Brazil!!

[@inthesetimesspeakingforthemind]

You said the care structure was threefold, but you broke it down to four? Facticity, throwness, falleness and existentiality? And the irony of explaining das Mann to students who have to pass grades etc… And the deeper problem with this model: that Hitler (and those like him) was the most authentic of them all….. These are very lucid presentations - thanks for sharing them with the general public.

[@EricDodsonLectures]

(1) Actually throwness is an aspect of facticity, so it belongs in that category. (2) Yes, there is a kind of contradiction in testing students on their knowledge of authenticity, das Man, etc. But on the other hand, if you simply refuse to play the system's game, then students will never get to hear about Heidegger... especially insofar as the system has ways of disposing of people who don't kowtow to its idols. So, then the question becomes: Which is the better of two imperfect alternatives? My own answer is to teach Heidegger even if I have to give tests on it. (3) I'm not so sure that Hitler was such a great role-model for authenticity. Of course, it's almost always impossible to tell definitively what someone else's ownmost potentiality-for-Being is. But ol' Adolf seemed to spend a lot time just surfing on the popular tide of anti-Semitism, especially in combination with people's resentment of the Versailles Treaty. All of that seems a lot more like inauthenticity to me. But, like I said, it's hard to tell in the absolute. And it's probably even harder to tell when we haven't even met the person face-to-face

[@inthesetimesspeakingforthemind]

@@EricDodsonLectures thanks so much for the clarifications and your time. I wasn't attacking you in my comment about students passing tests, needing to earn any job to pay off debts, engage in a world that rejects Being after graduation, etc.... The irony was an existential facticity that Heidegger doesn't really resolve - that the force of non-Being ("nothing itself nothings") appears to be greater than the activity of Being, even though he (inaccurately) insists that both Being and non-Being, truth and its concealedness, are merrily working together for some purposive revelation (God knows what that is). So the irony is within the terms of his own argument. Whilst we can never test the authenticity of the Other, my point about Hitler (perhaps all dictators from Mussolini through to Putin, the insurrectionist Trump or genocidal Netanyahu) is that they are all possessed with the force of futurity which they claim they own, control and materialise. POTENTIALITY however is no guarantee of any future, and certainly not of the appearance of Being. Yet, these individuals are fully convinced (AUTHENTICALLY) of their own Messianic mission to rescue the NATION - a great historical opportunity and potential which only they possess. And here, Heidegger shared the Nazi dream of the superior vocation of the German race that resided in the German language's proximity to Greek antiquity. So if the measure of authenticity is the future and potentiality and being "true" to that, then these individuals display those measures the most - more than you and I whose futurity and potentiality comes nowhere close to theirs in scope, despite the destructive ends they reach. Another problem with the intrinsic measure of authenticity in Heidegger's model? It points to the dimension of ethics that I raised in your video about Heidegger and the Nazis, and his rejections of Kant...

[@2009Artteacher]

Morrison himself said 'I am a philosopher not a musician . He was very interested in existential thinking so was well aware of the projects of Heidegger and Sartre . HIs writing did not come from a vacuum ,his storm is not from a blank slate. HIs drug induced performances is a example of his existential self destruction . That rode took its tole on many performers and fans . Some stronger pulled out of it ...ie Dylan and Stones who didnt float away with the bubble rahther grounded themselves in fertile soil .

[@thephenomenologist4669]

"Maybe getting fatter during the Corona Apocalypse!" Hilarious!

[@RyanNightTalks]

really enjoyed this

[@Sean-xf5fi]

You are my spirit animal, when will you open up a private mystery school?

[@adrianodacosta2297]

I am so glad for this class. Thanks so much, professor for posting this video. May I ask for your email? Thanks so much.

[@ssevkin]

Could I make a contribution of some sort (to your youtube channel or a charity) to get copies of these notes?

[@jericodevega6753]

THANKK YOUU SO MUCH SIR

[@lordtains]

I'd like to see the Medici's crib, not gonna lie.

[@danielgantenbein]

Um Heidegger zu verstehen, müssen Sie deutsch lernen; er spricht nicht nur der Sprache, er spricht vor allem: i n der Sprache. Und es ist die deutsche Sprache als die gewachsene eines Volkes. Die Sprache spricht d u r c h ihn... Freundliches Gelingen.

[@pendejo6466]

Jesus, I just discovered that you're teaching two classes--Existential and Humanistic psychology--on this channel. I'm thinking to myself, "why is the good Professor uploading Heidegger and May out of order?"

[@EricDodsonLectures]

Yeah... sorry about that. The Discovery of Being is for the Existentialism class, and Psychology and the Human Dilemma is for the Humanistic Psych. class. Eventually, I'm going to add stuff for a third class (but it'll be a relatively low-level class). But first I want to put out some content for my main channel, which I've been neglecting lately.

[@pendejo6466]

@@EricDodsonLectures Dude, you're dying to be a social, political commentator in the MSM. You'll do much good, but only at a great sacrifice because the current narrative MUST travel in only one direction--an indication of some kind of corruption within the movement.

[@EricDodsonLectures]

@@pendejo6466 ... Ha ha... that's funny... just this morning I was toying with the idea of starting a third YT channel that would be about commenting on contemporary issues from a philosophical/psychological perspective. At this point, I personally don't have much faith in the MSM, though. It seems like everyone there has some sort of ideological axe to grind, and hardly anyone cares about questing after the deeper truth of things. Sigh. And yeah, I agree that the narrative pretty much travels in only one direction. Sign of the times, I guess.

[@pendejo6466]

@@EricDodsonLectures The intellectual dishonesty coupled with "virtue" propaganda is a problem in the MSM (well, anywhere really), which is why I've declined to request your commentary on certain topics--the "They" are after wayward, noncompliant academics too. In the quest for social justice, malice has become inextricably bound to the movement now that the preponderance of power has been recalibrated: thirst for vengeance, hatred for enemies, and a perverse desire to "redeem" history but destroying it. The test of principle begins precisely where the power dynamics realign, and it seems that the once "weak" and "marginalized" refuse to act with moderation, fairness, and proportion--all the things they've demanded in the past--against their enemies, and are interested in payback above all else. But hey, when you retire, let it rip. I'll be cheering you on.

[@EricDodsonLectures]

@@pendejo6466 ... In my view, the essential problem we're seeing these days -- in many sectors of society -- was captured pretty well by Nietzsche when he wrote, "If you want to battle monsters, be careful not to become one yourself."

[@adaptercrash]

He could just say ontological dualism, that's not what authenticity or care is for.

[@malcolmholz6594]

Stop swivelling in the chair...