Thanks!

Thank you, and thanks for leaving a comment.

Thanks Paul!

Excellent! Good luck.

Thanks! I guess there are parallels to Plato and his cave, but in my opinion, you really don't need any of this to get stuck into _Essence._

@@absurdbeing2219 Thanks for your answer, is the book named "The Essence of Truth: On Plato's Cave Allegory and Theaetetus " on Amazon by Heidegger the good one?

@@asadcake6375 Ah, sorry; I misunderstood your earlier question. I thought you were referring to the essay I discuss in this video, not the book of (almost) the same title. A bit of a silly mistake in hindsight, really. Let me retract everything I said in my last comment because, unfortunately, I haven't read that book, so I can't really give you any useful advice. Sorry about that.

@@absurdbeing2219 because the essay you're discussing in the video isn't the book I was referring:(? Sorry it's my fault I thought that the essay discussed in the video was the book I was talking about. Ahhhh I bought the wrong book haha, why the fuck does it literally has the same name. So, where can I buy the essay that the video is about?

@@asadcake6375 Ah, confusion all round. Yeah, that's crazy they have the same name, huh. The essay the video is about is only about 20 pages long, and is from a collection of essays called _Heidegger: Basic Writings_ published by Routledge. If it's any consolation, the book you bought does look interesting, anyway!

You know what, I'm not really a big reader of anything one might call literature. I've read a little Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov was good value) and really enjoyed Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych, but even those, I read with an eye on philosophy the whole time. If I'm not reading philosophy, I tend to favour sci-fi novels, and again, what attracts me is the philosophical questions they raise; extending human life, transhumanism, AI, etc. I will say I do want to read Don Quixote and I'm half tempted to tackle Proust's In Search of Lost Time. Have you read either, or both? Let me turn the question around. What are your favourite authors / works of literature?

Absurd Being I just finished Don Quixote, and I really enjoyed it! For me, it was a fantastic phenomenological inquiry into the world of a human being. I'd even say that Don Quixote de La Mancha, is a Dasein in a Heideggerian sense. Maybe I'll get around reading Proust sometimes too... For me, (good) literature is like disguised philosophy, and sometimes it's more fun to read Dostoyevski than Hegel. Someone who I especially like as an author is a 19th century French realist, Honore De Balzac. He writes magnificently! I just read his novel La peau chagrin, and I loved it (I also suggest reading his Lost Illusions, if you have time). Other authors that I enjoy are for example Dostoevsky, and Solzenitshyn.

Brilliant! With such a recommendation, I'd better push Don Quixote to the top of my reading list! I agree with you about good literature being disguised philosophy. And existentialism (dealing with human existence as it does) seems to transpose into artistic form quite easily. Heidegger was heavily influenced by the poet Holderlin (although I myself have never been able to get into poetry), Sartre wrote plays and novels, Nietzsche was poetic in his own bombastic way, and the list goes on. I think I've heard of De Balzac before. I will definitely put him on the list too.

Absurd Being I like poetry too, although unfortunately I don't read it as much as I want to. I recently bought some poetry by a man called Ernst Meister, who's considered an existential poet, at least according to Wikipedia. I also like to read some Finnish poets since it's my homecountry and motherlanguage. There's something poetic in existence, that's for sure....

@@absurdbeing2219 Have you read the stories of Jorge Luís Borges? They are very philosophical.