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Philosophize This! · October 23, 2024 · 38m
Episode #214 — Framing Our Being in a Completely Different Way (Heidegger)
Heidegger's question of Being. We've forgotten the most fundamental question: what does it mean that anything exists at all? Technology and modern life distract us from this question — which Heidegger considers the only question that matters.
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West: Heidegger's concept of Gelassenheit (releasement, letting-be) closely parallels meditation practice. Both involve releasing the grasping, controlling orientation of the ego to allow reality to reveal itself.
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West: Heidegger's 'the They' (das Man) is the false self — the self that does what 'one does,' thinks what 'one thinks,' values what 'one values.' Authentic Dasein (existence) requires breaking free from this anonymous self.
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