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Heidegger says that, with Plato’s “doctrine” of the Good, we are inquiring into what grants and empowers being and truth, not the Being of beings and not unhiddenness themselves. The Good, like Heidegger’s Being as such, is what “gives” the Being of beings (Forms); “[the] Being [of beings]—that which It [Being as such] gives—is what is sent” ( TB 8). What
— Apr 17, 2019 12:21PM
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Plato: we are governed by an erotic longing for the Good, and that we love or long for what we lack,
Heidegger: we are drawn toward Being as it withdraws: “we are drawing into what withdraws, into the enigmatic and therefore mutable nearness of its appeal”. The deepest philosophical insight recognizes that the mystery must “remain . . . veiled”, that man’s search for wisdom is incomplete and incomplet-able.
— Apr 17, 2019 12:24PM
Heidegger: we are drawn toward Being as it withdraws: “we are drawing into what withdraws, into the enigmatic and therefore mutable nearness of its appeal”. The deepest philosophical insight recognizes that the mystery must “remain . . . veiled”, that man’s search for wisdom is incomplete and incomplet-able.
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The Good, then, is what Heidegger will later call the “mystery,” the unfathomable and concealed source of unconcealment that “in giving holds itself back and withdraws” ( TB 8), the dark side of Rilke’s “globe of Being”, the “side” of intelligibility facing away from us ( DT 64) that Heidegger describes interchangeably as “mystical,” “awesome,” “the unknown god,” and “the holy.”
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“ this book is an attempt to reverse several well-entrenched assumptions.”
Academics shock-jock?
— Apr 17, 2019 11:29AM
“ this book is an attempt to reverse several well-entrenched assumptions.”
Academics shock-jock?
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Interesting hot take:
Plato was a dark and cynical political pessimist, who thought it challenging enough to lead a single person out of the cave, not a utopian social engineer like Heidegger, who tried to lead a collective breakout of the cave by means of nationwide, nihilism-ending educational reform.
— Apr 17, 2019 11:26AM
Plato was a dark and cynical political pessimist, who thought it challenging enough to lead a single person out of the cave, not a utopian social engineer like Heidegger, who tried to lead a collective breakout of the cave by means of nationwide, nihilism-ending educational reform.
