PREVIEW-Episode 32: Heidegger: What is “Being?”
Summary: Discussing Martin Heidegger's Being and Time (1927), mostly the intro and ch. 1 and 2 of Part 1.<br> This is a 33-minute preview of our vintage 1 hr, 52-minute episode which you can buy at <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/product/ep32-heidegger/" target="_blank">partiallyexaminedlife.com/store</a> or <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/2011/02/07/ep32-heidegger-citizen/" target="_blank">get for free</a> with PEL Citizenship (see <a href="http://partiallyexaminedlife.com/membership" target="_blank">partiallyexaminedlife.com/membership</a>). You can also purchase the full episode in the <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/episode-32-heidegger-what/id1044837939" target="_blank">iTunes Store</a>: Search for "Partially Heidegger" and look under "Albums."<br> When philosophers try to figure out what really exists (God? matter? numbers?), Heidegger thinks they've forgotten a question that really should come first: what is it to exist? He thinks that instead of asking "What is Being?" we ask, as in a scientific context, "what is this thing?" This approach then poisons our ability to understand ourselves or the world that we as human beings actually inhabit, as opposed to the abstraction that science makes out of this.<br> This is Seth's big episode: this was his primary concentration in his later grad school years. Plus: Nazis, trying to figure out things by free associating about their origins in ancient Greek, and whoopee cushion record breaking news!<br> <a href="http://www.morelightinmasonry.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Heidegger-Being-and-Time-trans.-Macquarrie-Robinson.pdf" target="_blank">Read the text online</a> or <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0061575593?ie=UTF8&tag=theparexalif-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=0061575593" target="_blank">buy it.</a><br> End song: "Find You Out," from <a href="http://newpeopleband.com" target="_blank">the brand new New People album, Impossible Things</a>.<br>
