ARTSSCI 1A06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Scientific Method, Hubris, Martin Heidegger
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Heidegger is a central figure in literature and philosophy, and a lot of other fields like architecture even. He believes it"s only of the most power, political, and existential questions of our time. Says we are often and too easily thoughtless. Not that we lack the capacity to think, but that we let it lie fallow. He contrasts t he fallow field with an expressway/highway, paved over. Thinking requires a certain spirit connected to rationality. But we"re often thoughtless about these things, not really knowing and practicing a knowledge that cultivates it. A fallow field can grow, in a way. Thinking is being replaced by planning, organizing, and research. He says that these activities are also forms of thinking require thought, and these forms remain useful/indispensable, but they"re not meditative. And we"ve come to view "thinking" as calculating information. This is bad because calculative thinking never stops, never collects itself.