High Digger

This looks and sounds like I'm watching one of those televised Southern Baptist preachers but instead of hell and salvation, he's talking about Heiddeger and Humanism.

"Instead of investigating salamanders, newts or analytic philosophers, he tries to investigate human beings." 12:10

love hearing someone with this accent say heideggar and dasein and stuff

Listening to Rick never gets old. He sits on the tack sharpened on one side by pop culture and on the other decades of philosophical reading and consideration.

I think this is the best standup I have ever heard

All his jabs at analytic philosophy are pretty hilarious mostly b/c they're so spot on

I think it takes a very special kind of skill to take complex ideas and explain them in a way that makes sense to everyone.

slavoj zizek does a good southern accent

My biggest fear - growing old without having a story worth telling

So many comments defending exercise. Don't be ashamed about physical fitness friends. Rodrick wasn't ridiculing exercise in general; exercise fads and quick fixes seemed like his target to me.

Good, but Rick was referring to those participating in the then-new fitness craze in order to "look younger" and those trying to live longer simply for its own sake. Conforming to social norms of beauty and fleeing from death are both inauthentic behaviors per Heidegger. Anyway, it's unimportant what activity Heidegger would classify as inauthentic. Conforming to H's standards would itself be inauthentic. Note that Rick warns even reading Being & Time could become its own "kind of stairmaster"!

The ending to this kills me. He was at a "meaning of life" type moment, saying "that's important to being human. Fear death and realize..." and cut off. lol.

16:24 Just realized Jim Morrison must've been referencing Heidegger with the lyric "into this world we're thrown".

"Salamanders, newts or analytic philosophers". 👍

Why is it Rick Roderick could make the most abstruse philosophy sound like common sense?

I think Rick Roderick is slightly misunderstanding the rapport to death in our societies. He claims in the video that people nowadays have evicted the question of death. Nobody thinks about it anymore; we're too busy shopping, watching television, dieting, and so on. Therefore, according to Rick, Heidegger's focus on being-towards-death is somewhat outdated. I disagree with this view. I think that our relationship to death is actually that of repression. It's not that we moved along and the existential angst we have towards it has disappeared. Rather, we as a society, on the collective unconscious level so to speak, have moved in a direction that occults anything that has to do with death. The symbolic relation that humans had to death has largely disappeared: the dead slow us down, and so we have gotten rid of them. But our problem is the return of the repressed: we try to get rid of death, but death haunts us in different and more indirect ways. Instead of death disappearing from our horizon, it has become embedded in our very lives. Instead of living life-without-death as we would like to, we live life-in-death. And that produces the very example he uses himself: the jogging people, the beauticians and make-up artists, the diet coke, the yogis, the hysteria of health, etc. This is also what explains our fascination with machines and robots, which counterpart is the hate of what is actually human, too human. It may also explain the over-presence of death in our cultural artifacts, from movies to video games. Even music itself... (think death metal, black metal, hardcore hip hop, etc.). In many ways, there has been a shift or a transformation in our apparent attitude towards death, but by in large, Heidegger's core statement about being remains as true as ever. It's just the anxiety takes different forms. But it's still there.

"Is to want to make your life a STORY." Pause the tape again--this is mind-blowing, and pieces of the puzzle of Heidegger here begin to fall into place. Thank you for this, Rick Roderick.Also thanks for the explanation of ANXIETY. As children, Catholics, we were taught about SIN, not anxiety. Thanks to Heidegger's new definition of Being, we can now evolve from the problem, into more meaningful SOLUTIONS. But we can never rest on our laurels, because anxiety is part and parcel of who we are. Thus we are back to the ancient Greek wisdom: KNOW THYSELF. Now let's continue on...

Here is philosophy in action. Love this man. RIP.

34:21 *freedom to pursue one’s life project* “I’m gonna feel free to engage in my project without worrying about what *they* told me about how I should do philosophy. So I think there’s a moment of truth or a moment of interest in Heidegger’s account. Also, it’s made me rather short and sharp with small talk-it really does. I mean it makes me where people go _’well gee you know the weather today is just... che ehh ugh uhh’_ you know. I mean I’m sorry but I prefer conversations about sex, religion, politics, of course being a man-sports. But if it’s not something that you know _grabs me_ I feel perfectly free to go _’well it’s chatter-I haven’t got time for it-be dead soon, can’t do it.’”_

Thanks to whoever uploaded this.

Is it just me or does the video and audio break up between 34' and 34'24" ? After that, there seems to be a lag between the two.

The jab at Jesse Helms around 5 minutes in is much appreciated from a fellow North Carolinian.

Best uploads of all time. The "partially examined life" guys know what the hec they are doing.

Honored to have hung out with Rick Roderick at the Durham Waffle House late night. Thankful for RR

You're all familiar with remarks like, "well, they say" or "they say". 24:20. He's an unpretentious and wonderful explainer.

reducing "Dasein" to "self" makes for an interesting conversation, but it sacrifices the abstraction level that makes Heidegger such a pivotal thinker

I could be wrong, but I see the core of Nietzsche's philosophy, whether he meant it or not, as self affirmation and the search for authenticity through narcissism ( Greek master morality). An individual's desire for power and domination is a by-product of that. The fact that this passes for "authentic" is an outgrowth of petty bourgeois angst. He's right to see the patterns of life beginning at the molecular level. However, cell structure, imo, is more about harmony than "power."

With regard to Rick's comments about fitness, it could be said that committing yourself to a healthy lifestyle and physical fitness cannot necessarily be construed as unauthentic. I think there needs to be a distinction made between doing something for image and approval of the 'they' vs spending time on a project because one finds personal value in it. Just because a project doesn't have significant impact on the advance of the human race doesn't disqualify it as authentic or worthwhile.

The stairmaster bit is a perfect example of a neurotic and backwards-facing culture. Some might see it as a small detail, but it's a sign of a larger pathology.

If you think the core of Nietzsche's philosophy is self indulgence and the search for pleasure, you just haven't read Nietzche. He repeatedly stressed that driven by the Will to Power, a person might endure all kinds of sufferings and sacrifice in the process of self-overcoming. Rick focused far too much on political power and power over others. Nietzsche talks about cells and protoplasm having Will to Power. The power of growth, expansion. The power of Life. Power over others is Force.

Thank you for uploading this lecture, it made me start Reading Sein und Zeit. Reading it in German, I have an issue with his use of the self. The self is the main subject of his lecture, but the way he equates self with Dasein seems odd to me, especially regarding Heideggers concept of Jemeinigkeit. Jemeinigkeit describes the the possibility of something to be itself or not to be itself. Jemeinigkeit is defined by giving Dasein designation (Bestimmung). Now if the Dasein is itself (eigentlich) or not (uneigentlich) does not give less degree of being to the Dasein. Also the Dasein having the possibilty to be its true self (eigentlich) or not (uneigentlich) makes equating both concepts impossible. I think Rodericks topic of the lectures self-under-siege fits much better with Heidegger's Jemeinigkeit related context of the true (eigendlich) self, since the self-under-siege is an entity that can be harrassed (Otherwise the siege would have no meaining). The Dasein in contrast might not have an antagonist. But I'm not sure, I just started getting into it and glad for any reply. I hope it's not a stairmaster for us.

Roderick could not be more eloquent talking about the ills of society. He is a modern Socrates. Someone who got too close to the truth for the status quo to handle and so he was quieted (fired from Duke). Whoever says anything that is not constructively negative on this post is part of the problem. The truth hurts, but it is the truth.

22:54 “We’re not depressing people here, we’re not trying to depress people but these are structures of the selves-these aren’t symptoms that Phil Donahue or Oprah Winfrey can fix! To be asked to be cured of your fundamental despair, your anxiety, is to ask to be cured of what little self you may have. It is a stupid thing to even want in a way because it is our anxiety that makes us look at how we came up from the past.”

Running on the treadmill.. I used to think the same thing but now that I'm older I really appreciate the ability to run in a controlled safe environment. And running on the treadmill in a gym is so much more real than most activities that may or other people do these days lol.

20:51 *The mood that reveals what Dasein really is is* _anxiety_

4:55 *The non-footnoting public* “I’m going to attempt to do it in forty-five minutes-now, for Heidegger scholars this is an _obscenity,_ but I mean we’re trying to cover a lot of material in a short while. And we’re also trying to cover it in a way where what you might call _the non-footnoting public..._ I don’t want to call them non-scholarly because many people read many more books than academics [...] I’m talking about the non-footnoting public, you know people who haven’t footnoted every article on Heidegger-we’re gonna try to make the account popular in that sense, I have no problem with that-I also want it to be as accurate as I can.”

I wonder what would happen if each of us had have all our teachers like Rick Roderick.

Rick Roderick is such a mensch.

I like his thinking and this lecture is really eye opening. Like his rant about people trying to be young into their older age not accepting responsibility, but exercising, or jogging can have substantial benefits. And to discount those who working to improve their health is too miss the mark but i think he might be suggesting people's obsession with youth, and unwillingness to mature and evolve and use running in place as a substitute for aging

31:17 “The recognition of ones own nothingness in ones own death is the ultimate possibility. This recognition and acceptance frees us for our projects.” And the next step is self-reflexivity, to recognize components of your own ideological footprint so you don’t stumble into fascism like Heidegger.

There is a fixed version of this lecture here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z9imdpxkkpyoZoU.html I had to splice in some audio from the corresponding audio tape, however only the video stops, the audio continues and has been resynced. It also has an extra 15 seconds of audio at the end.

Wonderful speaker and educator.

28:19 “Now I mean sure-some people are afraid of death and other people are afraid of being seen carrying people magazine. I mean we live in a society that may be _far_ too superficial for the account I’m giving, so I’m hoping to try to make some sense out of it. I mean different things bother different people. I mean the culture that really scares me is the one in which death has no significance for our projects-that’s the culture in which the self is under siege.”

Well the "I' is an equiprimordial moment of Dasein. It is not a matter of replacing the "i-self" by Dasein. the 'I' is included in Dasein.

Great until 33.57 when there is some sort of malfunction. Still, have really enjoyed and appreciated the videos of these lectures. Kindest thanks!

Heidegger is ok, but I myself will deal a heavier blow to philosophy. Rick Roderick is tha man. Love these lectures.

Was listening to this on my run. Had to stop because I was dying from laughter at the point he talked about running :))

Thank you for these videos, really appreciate it!

Using the virginia reel as example of knowing/learning your culture is brilliant. As with the virginia reel, mot knowing the set up or where to stand could find you with an unhappy partner, or not depending on your preference

at the very end ; "Remember, Fear Death and .... ". It is cut off.

Great lecture, insightful and inspiring. Thank you for the upload.

I took exam on Heidegger 1979 in Bergen Norway and later I have studied the eastern Vedanta Philosophy. And found that both asks the same questions and points out the same point about Dasein as the being that asks questions about being. Vedanta sutra starts: atathatha brahma jijnasa: "Now, therefore (as you have come to human life) it is time to ask about Brahman - Being ("Was ist Sein"). Confirms that this is THE question of philosophy and this is THE special mission for humans. Technology all beings have in their way anyway.

Great talk, I like the humor. It is truth, the working on the body, how to look younger, how to look like models, it is crazy. But there is also another side... Anyway I do yoga, I have to watch out:))

What 's wrong with these videios between 33:58 and 34:21?, Can that bit be found somewhere else?

I am not a fascist. How could I be? I have never heard a comprehensive definition of its tenets, or why those tenets are so evil. All I ever hear is a rather unsophisticated "fascism bad; everything else good."

I’m sure someone had brought this up before but this reminds me so much of Bill Hick’s ideas. A bit kinder and softer though.

21:36 “This account of the mood of anxiety I’m about to give you briefly is not the kind of anxiety for which you run to the doctor or the psychiatrist and you take a Valium or talk it out or get on a damn twelve-step program-because it is an anxiety in before the fear of nothingness. It’s an anxiety in the face of death. I don’t want to make it sound too scary but I’ve already said it is a democratic institution, it is something you need to deal with. And again we’re looking for universal structures. One of the structures of all stories about the selves, even the ones we tell ourselves, no matter how disconnected they may be.. they end in this rather interesting institution-death. Very interesting institution. Well he examines the mood of anxiety then not as a mere mood that just comes upon you once in awhile, but as an _underlying structure of what it means to be human._ In other words *if you remove this anxiety you would also remove the self.”*

Love this guy! However, he doesn't seem to realize that exercise doesn't necessarily mean avoiding death. Treadmill's and stair masters also allow us to enjoy health in the present, are psychologically challenging, and are directly connected with increased happiness. It may be his own justifications cloud his vision a bit.

27:50 “Being free in this sense is not an easy thing to want to be-let me just say that right away.”

Time to study philosophy whilst on the stair master!

“If we are to understand the problem of Being, our first philosophical step consists in not “telling a story” Heidegger, M., & Robinson, E. (2008). Exposition of the Question Of The Meaning of Being. In J. Macquarrie (Trans.), Being and Time (7th ed., p. 26). introduction, HarperPerennial/Modern Thought. Hermeneutic is not the ‘English equivalent’ of narrative or story. MH says explicitly that we do not begin by “telling a story”. That being said this belongs to the most engaging lecture series that helped me jump from YT lectures to the text themselves. Checkout Sugrue and Calhoun lectures on Heidegger.

15:38 *Dasein = Sorge (care/anxiety)* “The human structure as uncovered by Heidegger is _care,_ and in terms of the past it shows we are beings already in the world. Which means that the philosophical project of starting without prejudices, starting without biases, starting without interpretations would be as _stupid_ as to have someone start speaking Shakespeare without having a language. In a way the deep and powerful blow that Heidegger lays against philosophy is: _as a discipline that can start from scratch and tell us who we are, that can just start with a clean slate and build it up._ No-the way we experience our lives is we wake up and hell we’re already here! We are in his phrase: _thrown into the world._ You were born somewhere, some when, some race, some class, some gender-and all of that already comes along and from the minute you begin to speak a language and learn a culture... and learning a culture, contrary to what analytic philosophers say, is _not_ like learning to pick out patches of blue or being sure that _this_ is your hand. Learning a culture, to _live in it,_ is more like learning how to dance the Virginia Reel than it is learning how to pick out patches of blue-involves many complex steps before you’re _in_ one. And I mean even in a crude and vicious culture like West Texas that’s true-the one I come from. I mean there’s a lot of subtle little machismo rituals that if you don’t know they will beat you to death. You just have to learn them-they’re complex, they’re much more complex than the standard philosophical examples, which are picking out patches of blues and so on. So Heidegger says that in terms of the *past* we’re already in a world. In terms of the *present,* _care_ reveals us as trying to be _at home_ in the world. See you may notice this sort of _home-y_ language of Heidegger’s-the fact that he turns out to be a fascist, this has made me to this day wary of language that’s overly _home-y._ [...] But anyway _care_ reveals us as being _at home among_ or _being among_ or trying to feel that you’re in the _right place,_ you know that you belong in a place. In terms of the future we are always according to Heidegger _ahead of ourselves._ Have you ever.. now this is I think another profound part about the narrative of the self. In a certain way what our plans and projects are, are not a part of our future but a part of our present, we’re always ahead of ourselves we’re always... it’s like, _’Well you know lunch later what do we want-Big Mac, Bouillabaisse...’_ it depends on your class I guess more than anything else. And even in terms of like college, _’what are my kids gonna do for college?’ - ‘what about my retirement?’_ This is a characteristic... and again what I’m telling you here from Heidegger-remember we just started with a story about the self and now we’re just telling one and it’s supposed to capture sort of the general features of selfhood, being a self. And so that’s what he sees there in that structure. Dasein reveals itself in terms of the *past* as being _thrown into_ a world, in terms of the *present* as being able to try to _articulate_ our place within it, and in terms of the *future* in terms of projecting ourselves forward and so on. Now, here’s the bad part: Heidegger realizes that you can’t just simply abandon this old philosophical project and then just tell this story and hope to capture its universal features (in other words the features that are shared by dasein wherever we happen to bump into dasein or to the self or selves-being-there type creatures like us that asks these questions about being) without looking into what he calls _moods._ It’s very interesting, Heidegger is one of the few philosophers to discuss something that’s very important to people-moods. I mean most analytic philosophers have no interest in moods. It’s funny, I think this is why when you read these continental philosophers like some I’m discussing today they’re considered a bit effeminate because this mood talk is not really macho you know. [...] But in any case it’s clear to me that mood is an important characteristic when you discuss the self and what selfhood is. And this is I think one of the most profound parts of the analysis that the young Heidegger gives. The mood that he thinks that reveals what dasein really is (and this will connect with my first lecture about the masters of suspicion) is _anxiety._ That is the mood that will reveal, as it were, the formal, existential character of dasein-his anxiety. *Anxiety.* Now when I say _mood_ here you could easily misunderstand me. All the account Heidegger is giving, while it is an account of the human itself, this account of the mood of anxiety I’m about to give you briefly is not the kind of anxiety for which you run to the doctor or the psychiatrist and you take a Valium or talk it out or get on a damn twelve step program, because it is an anxiety before the fear of _nothingness._ It’s an anxiety in the face of death-don’t want to make it sound you know, too scary, but I’ve already said it is a democratic institution, it is something you need to deal with and again we’re looking for universal structures. One of the structures of all stories about the selves, even the ones we tell ourselves, no matter how disconnected they may be-they end in this rather interesting institution: _death._ Very interesting institution. Well he examines the mood of anxiety then not as a _mere_ mood that just comes upon you once in awhile, but as an underlying structure of what it means to be human. In other words, _if you remove this anxiety you would also remove the self;_ the same view Kierkegaard holds of _despair._ I mean we’re not depressing people here, we’re not trying to depress people but these are structures of the selves, these aren’t symptoms that Phil Donahue or Oprah Winfrey can fix! To be asked to be cured of your fundamental anxiety is to be asked to be cured of what little self you may have, it is a stupid thing to even want in a way because _it is our anxiety which makes us look at how we came up from the past._ The way that that’s described by Heidegger is that we were abandoned to the _they,_ to _das man,_ the crowd. What does he mean by that? Well he means we grew up in a place like West Texas or Cleveland, Ohio or Bangladesh where the way we grew up and the way our past is structured, we didn’t learn our moral theories from Kant or Mill-we learned them because our mama’s spanked our butts! Said, _’Don’t steal!’_ Whap! You know, we were _thrown-into_ that, we were abandoned to those values as it were. It’s not a scary thing, that’s how we learn. See this is a way to try to redirect our attention to the _concreteness_ of being a self as opposed to giving a philosophical account. This was Heidegger’s attempt: _you’re abandoned to the they._ You’re all familiar with remarks like, _’well they say’_ or _’they say’,_ well that’s exactly the spirit in which Heidegger’s using the concept here. You know if you violate certain restrictions of your culture somebody’s gonna go, _’well but you know they say...’_ That’s the way in which Heidegger sees us relating to our past-anxiety reveals that to us. Now why is it anxiety? Well if we want to make our lives a project (and Heidegger thinks fundamentally we do-thinks that’s part of the structure of dasein) is to want to make your story a story. _A story,_ not just a bunch of disconnected junk and debris that happened to happen to you but a story, a _project._ If that’s true then our relation to the past is filled with anxiety because we all started from this time of abandonment to the values of others-to _They._ It’s not an evil thing this just means the culture around you-it means the opinion of people. _’Well you know they say you wear your hair like that...’_ and so on, it’s not unusual stuff it’s the common way in which we’re brought up.”

10:57 *Being vs being* “Classically in philosophy there was a distinction drawn between “Being” with a capital _B,_ which is a philosophical way of writing God or fundamental entity-Being, big _B)_ and “beings”, entities, like one among which is dasein.”

Looking forward to the next one, on Sartre, who appears to have taken this torch of light he received from The Master, and to have run with it, so to speak...

Wow I love this man

🎯 Key Takeaways for quick navigation: 00:06 📚 Heidegger's lecture explores the rejection of humanism and the search for meaning in the 20th century. 01:10 🌍 The self is under siege from cultural critiques and profound changes of the modern era. 02:18 💡 The lecture highlights challenges to the traditional understanding of the self in relation to God and within ourselves. 04:08 ❌ Evaluating philosophical ideas should not be based on a person's political beliefs but on the merits of the ideas themselves. 09:19 📖 Heidegger offers a narrative approach to understanding the self, emphasizing the importance of stories over strict methodologies. 13:32 🕰️ Heidegger's concept of "care" or "Sorge" is fundamental to understanding human existence and how we relate to the world. 19:24 😨 Anxiety plays a significant role in our selfhood, revealing our past, present, and future concerns and shaping our understanding of ourselves. 23:41 🌱 Heidegger emphasizes the significance of our upbringing and cultural values in shaping our self and personal projects. 26:36 💡 Heidegger emphasizes facing one's own nothingness to avoid filling life with busyness and fleeing from authentic insights and projects. 27:06 💡 Heidegger's account of embracing the future as a project and being free for and from being shapes an authentic life. 32:23 💡 Embracing the recognition of our own mortality can liberate and free us to engage in meaningful projects. 35:25 💡 The obsession with youth and avoiding aging is an example of fleeing from one's authentic self and destiny. 39:47 💡 Authenticity alone is not sufficient as it can lead to being authentically negative or harmful; there must be a higher aspiration to have a meaningful and interesting life. 43:35 💡 A meaningful life involves having a compelling story, engaging in authentic projects, and leaving a legacy worth remembering. The self is under siege in modern society. Made with HARPA AI

Interesting lecture. I thought that only Althusser had critized the Humanist ideology.

The thing about exercise is it's also improves how you feel when you're alive

20:00 West Texas doesn't have moods! We have fighting words, but no moods.

I'm always looking for new interesting lectures on Psychology/Philosophy, please let me know if you guys have any recommendations, would be highly appreciated

Like James', "Ulysses", Heidegger's, "Being and Time", is a must read. Now, is the 'event horizon'.

The nature of Nietzsche's understanding of "power" as decadent or some bourgeois pathology is not correctly understanding what N meant by "power" or how he understood "harmony". To make sense of it using a biological model, in evolution is cooperation in systems and groups but you also have competition. The "winners" (a gene, an organism, a species,etc) are not "oppressing" others, they are merely existing. It's not force for the sake of cruelty or domination, but genuine intent. Cruel or Kind.

Ultimately, I believe, all philosophy has an underpinning of existential madness.

Looks like he was right given the way modernity has turned out.

IX. It is right to put authenticity into its proper place. Heidegger was well aware that the analysis of logos proceeds authenticity. Authenticity means nothing without having a theory of knowledge at hand to judge it. More than anything else, authenticity is a reflection on the status of self (Dasein) in his environment mediated by the self, and more cannot be expected. It would be hard not to admit you are a wolf if you live only among wolves.

33 minutes 57 seconds the video loses audio and some video

Great lecture!

And thank you for an actual response! I think that's the first time I haven't been berated with nonsense from a KZfaq comment...

This is quite good. I would suggest an alternative translation for "das Man" not the-they but "everyone" That's Jean-Luc Nancy's suggestion and it makes sense.

I can't help earing "nudes" when he says "moods" ☠️ great lecture, what an outstanding professor 🙏

i appreciate it when he says, " there has been a shift" in the self....an idea of destiny....like in the fighters at the alamo, or in Oddysseus; that talk show hosts are not living in the same register- and that has been lost in modern civilized humans. THe fleeing from self, fleeing from death.... with the stairmaster and chasing youth...right! i totally dig this guy, he;s funny. And, yeah.. Athena transformed Oddyseus, so no stairmaster necessary.

great lecture!!

There is nothing new under the Sun. Same advise Krishna gave to Arjuna.

is he not describing qualities and functions but avoiding the question as to whether there is a self as an a priori entity, which buddha denied in his anatta doctrine

Rick Roderick reminds me of Bill Hicks. Both were truly excellent people.

Philosophers unfortunately take "language" for "self". It is just as thinking "vision" is "self". It would bring up a lot of stupid mistakes. Language is just a function of human self - a small part, not everything; not the only door to reality etc. It's when you can experience yourself beyond language, as a whole, that you come to face the real self. Just as you can feel and experience with your eyes closed, you can feel and experience without thinking and that's also you. Without thinking, philosophers feel kinda like the dude who owns a boat, when he can't show off his boat, so it's tough on them, I guess.

I concur with your interpretation. And I don't think Rick was criticizing any activity done for its own sake.

Destiny got destroyed in this debate.

While I disagree with some of his views on Nietzsche, Roderick is a fantastic teacher.

This was quite a poor summary i think, Rick didn't cover the main points with enough depth or clarity which i have seen done before, particularly from Jason Jorjani and Hubert Dreyfus.

Love this!!❤❤

that ending. these are amazing thank you. Part philosophy part G. Carlin. Or Hicks even at some points lol. well, the ranting is apreciatedx)

Sorry he's gone. Wonderful stuff. Re: Odysseus and the Stairmaster™. Rick forgets that there was a shit-ton of rowing involved. The wind was not always favorable, not the least because he'd both pissed off Poseidon and because his crew had opened the bag of unfavorable winds passed to him by Aeolus.

Does anyone know if Prof Rick Roderick was at Texas at the same time as the sociologist George Kirkpatrick, a professor at San Diego State University who died about the same time as Roderick of the same ailment. They had, it seems, common interests and perspectives and even, to me, a physical resemblance.

Pre NPC meme. Most of the people in the audience are not real people but objects with dialogue trees. Dasein is lost on machines lacking self awareness. A truly sentient AI would be more in existence then 90% of people you come in contact with on a daily basis.

What a beautiful, brilliantly humoured man (not Heidegger). It's the closest thing I've seen to Bill Hicks teaching philosophy. This is a great introduction for the non "footnoted audience" to Heidegger.

indeed, perhaps that skill is comprehension, which is a feat in itself. It's hard to explain because the topics at hand are hard!

The account of authenticity he gives is a little bit wrong, it’s also about being more open to the potentiality of others outside of yourself, it enhances not only your own destiny but the destiny of others. This is a huge difference

wait a sec didnt he listen to the interview with heidegger where he describes in detail what he means exactly when he speaks of the "dasein" which is "the nature of the human"? Its kind of important to listen to it carefully to understand Heidegger