PHL217H1 Lecture 15: Lecture 15
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
PHL217 - Lecture 15
Heidegger and nothingness
-Refusal to accept death at the core of philosophy
-Change vs. coming into existence and passing out of it
-Used to be super exciting that no one brings themselves into existence
-Can something bring itself into/out of existence?
-It’s an issue close to everyone
-There’s a way no one dies but carries on in essence
-The new humanism must take the mortality of human beings much more seriously
-Heidegger is trying to suggest that passing away is intrinsic to being
-Problem with Heidegger is that we’re not ready to find out if God exists
•whatever He might be has to be re-conceived
•definitely rejecting the idea of the Christian God
•we don’t have to answer the religious question because we don’t even know the
essence of the Holy
•we have to re-construe being along with being and human
-From God=Being, you can derive human essence and humanism (normally)
•for Heidegger, Being and human beings are connected and from there we can deal
with holiness and god
-267 - whether God is near or withdrawing
•is there access to the holy in the 21st century (secondary problem)
-What about ethics?
•not at the heart of Being and human beings
•we can’t deal with practical philosophy (using reason to do things well) until we deal
with Being and human beings
•not interested in ethics - too early
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Document Summary
Refusal to accept death at the core of philosophy. Change vs. coming into existence and passing out of it. Used to be super exciting that no one brings themselves into existence. There"s a way no one dies but carries on in essence. The new humanism must take the mortality of human beings much more seriously. Heidegger is trying to suggest that passing away is intrinsic to being. From god=being, you can derive human essence and humanism (normally: for heidegger, being and human beings are connected and from there we can deal with holiness and god. 267 - whether god is near or withdrawing: is there access to the holy in the 21st century (secondary problem) Cared about being and ontology in a very fundamental way: this points back to ethics, on a level above practical and theoretical philosophy (ontology) Ethics as a place for dwelling: the human being dwells in the nearness of god (269)
