NEW333H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Martin Heidegger, Impulsivity, Christian Contemplation
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He tried to convey that houses are homes insofar as they function as locations, nexus for mythos. we do a lot beyond them being places for shelter and storage they"re deeply connected with our symbols, souvenirs, shows, etc. degree to which house is serving the purpose of providing a machine for your mythos. we load as much mythos as we can into our house to make it a home. the government was not paying attention to this, they were only looking at the economic functions of a house, not the mythos functions of a home. Religion tries to protect us from the otherness", but otto points out that religion is a set of practices that exposes us to the numinous, to confront it. we have a bi valent attitude towards his (fascination/terrified) this dis attunement from the world can be understood as two sides of the same developmental point.
